{"id":292,"date":"2005-01-17T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=292"},"modified":"2005-01-17T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T19:13:38","slug":"early-spring-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/early-spring-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in 1978 we lived in Heidelberg for two years, and when we came home to pick up our stuff from a warehouse in Louisville, we heard the Beatles song, “Back in the USSR” on the radio in a Winn-Dixie parking lot. Lennon [Whoops, reader Paul Reiners tells me it was McCartney<\/i>] has this great, authoritative, Elvis-like voice in that song, “You don’t know how lucky you are boy, back in the, back in the, back in the USSR.”<\/p>\n

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Mutatis mutandis<\/i>, lucky to be back in California. It rained a lot while we were gone. On the cut bank above the road, each pebble has a rain-shadow beneath itself in the sandy dirt.<\/p>\n

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It’s more or less spring now. There’s this one vine we always notice, it’s a wild cucumber that eventually bears fruits that look like spiky green ball-sacks, like chestnut pods.<\/p>\n

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The tendrils are wonderfully curly. Reminds me of Bernoulli’s spiral, and a slogan I often inscribe in the sand at the beach, “EADEM MUTATA RESURGO”, which is Latin for “The Same, Yet Changed, I Re-arise.” The mathematician James Bernoulli (1655-1705) had this inscribed on his tombstone in Basel along with a picture of the logarithmic spiral. I mention this in Frek<\/i>. The plant, the same yet changed, rearises is the same spot each spring. Springs forth, bearing springs.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful nature, the same forms occurring over and over. The same computation classes.<\/p>\n

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The flow of energy in a growing plant is in some ways like the flow along a candle flame.<\/p>\n

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As above, so below.<\/p>\n

One reason I’m going all mysto here is to get my mind off all the discouraging speculations I read in the Sunday Times<\/i> yesterday about the Chimp's plans for the next four years.<\/p>\n

Today’s Martin Luther King’s birthday, and I’m hearing him on the radio, admiring the power of his approach: non-violent protests against unjust oppression. I’m visualizing immense non-violent protests over the impending attacks upon the common people, maybe that could work.<\/p>\n

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