Comments on: The Black Hills, Part VI: The Badlands http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/09/24/the-black-hills-part-vi-the-badlands.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/09/24/the-black-hills-part-vi-the-badlands.html/comment-page-1#comment-8712 Sean Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/09/24/the-black-hills-part-vi-the-badlands.html#comment-8712 <p>sometimes lifeless = beautiful<br /> <br /> 'it's a beautiful day...' were you evoking U2?</p> sometimes lifeless = beautiful

‘it’s a beautiful day…’ were you evoking U2?

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/09/24/the-black-hills-part-vi-the-badlands.html/comment-page-1#comment-8713 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/09/24/the-black-hills-part-vi-the-badlands.html#comment-8713 <p>Sean,<br /> <br /> Normally I reference songs on purpose, but this time it wasn't intentional. :-) I think of U2 when I travel by plane [1], though....<br /> <br /> Every since I read it, lifeless beauty made me think of one of the best passages of C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" (a book composed almost entirely of best passages!):<br /> <br /> "'Hygiene. Why should they have their world all crawling with organisms?' And specially, they would banish one organism. Her surface is not all you see. There are still surface-dwellers—savages. One great dirty patch on the far side of her where there is still water and air and forests—yes, and germs and death. They are slowly spreading their hygiene over their whole globe. Disinfecting her... This Institute—Dio meo, it is for something better than housing and vaccinations and faster trains and curing people of cancer. It is for the conquest of death: or for the conquest of organic life, if you prefer. They are the same thing... Nature is the ladder we have climbed up by, now we kick her away." [2]<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUG57MFPTs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUG57MFPTs</a><br /> [2] <a href="http://highlands.gospelcom.net/ETC/Volume_Seven/Issue_Three/CultureMatters.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://highlands.gospelcom.net/ETC/Volume_Seven/Issue_Three/CultureMatters.php</a></p> Sean,

Normally I reference songs on purpose, but this time it wasn’t intentional. :-) I think of U2 when I travel by plane [1], though….

Every since I read it, lifeless beauty made me think of one of the best passages of C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” (a book composed almost entirely of best passages!):

“‘Hygiene. Why should they have their world all crawling with organisms?’ And specially, they would banish one organism. Her surface is not all you see. There are still surface-dwellers—savages. One great dirty patch on the far side of her where there is still water and air and forests—yes, and germs and death. They are slowly spreading their hygiene over their whole globe. Disinfecting her… This Institute—Dio meo, it is for something better than housing and vaccinations and faster trains and curing people of cancer. It is for the conquest of death: or for the conquest of organic life, if you prefer. They are the same thing… Nature is the ladder we have climbed up by, now we kick her away.” [2]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUG57MFPTs
[2] http://highlands.gospelcom.net/ETC/Volume_Seven/Issue_Three/CultureMatters.php

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