tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post875706303143878628..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Castles in the AirAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-70016964168256739572010-05-31T15:32:21.968-07:002010-05-31T15:32:21.968-07:00Rehan, many thanks. That's a beautiful passag...Rehan, many thanks. That's a beautiful passage.<br /><br />Marcoz, well, it was you who inspired me. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-34287128242547145872010-05-28T11:47:16.199-07:002010-05-28T11:47:16.199-07:00very nice post and i like how you wrote it...very nice post and i like how you wrote it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-53038260742692017412010-05-26T20:27:07.172-07:002010-05-26T20:27:07.172-07:00I am reminded of one of my favourite scientific ph...<b>I am reminded of one of my favourite scientific phenomena - That of the Superior Mirage. Check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIpZAKBk1ew&playnext_from=TL&videos=jMvPZRJ1ezE</b>.<br /><br />But the deeds of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in a desert. Which the thirsty person imagines to be water, when he comes up to it he finds it to be nothing and finds Allah near him Who pays him his account in full and Allah is swift in reckoning.<br /><br />(<i>The Holy Quran</i>. Al Noor [The Light]. 40).<br /><br /><b>David Dimbleby visits the town of Dunwich and speaks of the scientific phenomena of Fata Morgana in a clip I posted here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKWc7H21V6I. For more information and instances of this spectacular occurence see Marina Warner's 'Fata Morgana; or Castles in the Air' in <i>Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century</i> (Oxford University Press, 2006). It is the most thorough study.<br /><br />Also the poem 'Lightenings: viii' by Seamus Heaney. As in Dunwich, bells can also be heard rising from the sunken cathedral of Ys, subject of 'La Cathédrale engloutie' by the famous composer Debussy.</b>Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-69004793030651718412010-05-24T16:59:36.320-07:002010-05-24T16:59:36.320-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-6850933570147942382010-05-24T16:58:01.660-07:002010-05-24T16:58:01.660-07:00I just might. :-)I just might. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47761753100847501772010-05-24T16:32:42.484-07:002010-05-24T16:32:42.484-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.com