Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Shelley's "The Cloud"

From the dedication page of Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey, 2nd edition (2006) by Wallace and Hobbs, dedicated to co-author Peter V. Hobbs.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of the Orphic golden tablets found buried with ancient Greek.

They contain instructions on how to navigate the afterlife. The instructions require that you speak to the guardians of the afterlife: "I am a child of Earth and of Starry Heaven; But my race is of Ouranos. This you know yourselves."

Although the desire of the orphic initiate is to transcend, whereas shelly celebrates nature’s eternal transformation.