AUGUST 25TH 2011
Dolphin Muse
As with all things,
Thursday posed a great many choices for inclusion, and for a muse.
Thursday Etymology
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There is so much available,
There is so much available,
for the moment some literature, film and music.
The Man Who Was Thursday
wherein Gabriel Syme, the main character, was given the title of Thursday
in G. K. Chesterton's 1908 Metaphysical thriller.
Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck's 1954 novel, the sequel to his novel Cannery Row,
set in the days after WWII
Let Thursday be the Day of the Dolphin
The Man Who Was Thursday
wherein Gabriel Syme, the main character, was given the title of Thursday
in G. K. Chesterton's 1908 Metaphysical thriller.
Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck's 1954 novel, the sequel to his novel Cannery Row,
set in the days after WWII
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The character Arthur Dent says
"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
A few minutes later the planet Earth is destroyed.
Here's the opening 6 minutes and 38 seconds of the 2005 Film
The Muse Shot
I snapped a dolphin leaving earth from the opening sequence.
I snapped a dolphin leaving earth from the opening sequence.
I love dolphins and worry over them even more than I worry over us.
Let Thursday be the Day of the Dolphin
A day for Mammalian Intelligence & Wisdom
Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises,
are descendants of terrestrial mammals.
are descendants of terrestrial mammals.
The ancestors of the modern day dolphins entered the water
roughly 50 million years ago.
read more science
roughly 50 million years ago.
read more science
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Thursday's Child
David Bowie
I still believe in magic
"...AND MAGIC DOES NOT DIE."
