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Résumé
Were I to run a probe, let's say from outer space, down through the stratosphere (through the ozone layer), through the tropopause and the troposphere, through whatever clouds of water vapor (is it raining?), down through the branches of a flamboyan (the raindrops breaking up on the leaves, bouncing and dripping and slipping off), through the zinc-plated roof beneath it, into a room, through a person, perhaps through his head and then his hand, through his cuatro (he's hunched over it, playing it against the sound of the rain on the roof), down through the floor boards, through the space beneath the house, through the shallow, red, friable, crumbling clay beneath it, through the rest of the lithosphere, through the asthenosphere, through the outer liquid core of nickel-iron into the solid mass that may lie there at the center of the Earth, at no point-at no point-would I have encountered a system at rest, a ground zero, a firm place on which to stand from which to observe the motion of everything else: it's all in motion.
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9781572309586
- ISBN-10
- 157230958X
- EAN
- 9781572309586
- Éditeur
- Guilford press (New York)
- Date de publication
- 1 janvier 2003
- Langue
- eng
- Pages
- 336
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
Provenance des données
- dimensions BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- language BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- page_count Open Library · 1 août 2026
- publication_date Open Library · 1 août 2026
- subtitle Open Library · 1 août 2026
- summary Open Library · 1 août 2026
- title Open Library · 1 août 2026