lundi 8 décembre 2008

Cloudspotter's guide

Noga m'a prêté The Cloudspotter's guide, un super livre publié par la Cloud Appreciation Society... la société des amateurs de nuages fondée par l'anglais Gavin Pretor-Pinney!

Voici le manifeste de la société:

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned
and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.
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We think that they are Nature’s poetry,

and the most egalitarian of her displays, since
everyone can have a fantastic view of them.

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We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.
Life would be dull if we had to look up at

cloudless monotony day after day.

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We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the
atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of
a person’s countenance.

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Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.
They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.
Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save
on psychoanalysis bills.

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And so we say to all who’ll listen:
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!

2 commentaires:

Toktokada a dit…

whoua, super, il manque juste un petit paragraphe sur les fameuses formes des nuages. "Oh, celui là ressemble à ma tante léontine" ou " On dirait un gros yéti avec une queue de lézard".

yael a dit…

dans le bouquin il y a une photo d'un nuage en forme de bob marley...!