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"To be content with little is not true culture, but to be free from little or from much is" - J.Krishnamurti " FEBRUARY SEVENTEENTH WAS A FATEFUL DAY FOR SAM FLEMMING.  Sam considered himself an extremely lucky person. As a broker for one of the major Wall Street firms, he'd become wealthy by the age of forty-six. Then, like a gambler who knew when to quit, Sam had taken his earnings and fled north from the concrete canyons of New York to idyllic Bartlet, Vermont. There he'd begun to do what he'd always wanted to do: paint. Part of Sam's good fortune had always been his health, yet at half past four on February Seventeenth, something strange began to happen. Numerous water molecules within many of his cells began to split apart into two fragments: a relatively inoffensive hydrogen atom and a highly reactive, viciously destructive hydroxyl free radical. The hydroxyl free radicals began to nibble away at the core of Sam Flemming's b...

"You must ask each piece what it can usefully achieve on its own, what help it requires from the other pieces, and in what way it itself is prepared to help them." - David Bronstein ...... Space ..... Time ...... Space-time......       Ray - Photo by Nemai Ghosh                    Karpov - Kasparov, Linares, 1993 The great still photographer Nemai Ghosh , wrote, in his memories of Satyajit Ray , " I don't know what possessed me then. As if in a trance I felt my finger pressing the shutter on the camera.... and I finished both rolls of film " The shutter, choosing the time to urge the fingers press it, to compose a shot, is dictated by the needs of a situation - and not the desire of the one who clicks it! It corresponds to time and time corresponds to space - which is defined by two coordinates: a start and an end. So, everything is defined and ruled by space..... the cosmos, the earth, human relationships, ev...