a. natasha joukovsky
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After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
Helen Macdonald | H IS FOR HAWK
"Since the dawn of military aviation, birds of prey had been thought of as warplanes made flesh: beings of aerodynamic, predatory perfection..."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery | WIND, SAND, AND STARS
"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away..."