Fool on the Hill

“Does this seem strange? it is like when, watching the sun going down gloriously at sunset, disappearing slowly behind distant clouds, we suddenly remember that it’s not the sun that’s moving but the Earth that’s spinning, and we see with the unhinged eye of the mind our entire planet – and ourselves with it – rotating backward, away from the sun. We are seeing with “mad” eyes, like Paul McCartney’s Fool on the Hill: the crazed vision that sometimes sees further than our bleary, customary eyesight. “ The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli read more