#silentsunday along the #DeschutesRiver #Oregon

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 I finally got around to watching Denis Villeneuve's 2016 film, ARRIVAL. The screenplay is based on a short story by Ted Chiang, and it feels a lot like an Arthur C. Clarke kind of story. In other words, there's something of the grand yet intimate classic science fiction stories of the golden age of scifi. A true "first contact" story with deep meaning, mystery, and socio-political questions. I feel it's a rather remarkable and excellent film.

#ScienceFiction #scifi #cinema #film #movies 

 "The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal—or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be." –Elizabeth Peters

#caturday

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 "If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats." –Eugen Weber

#caturday

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 To properly prepare us for another introspective #caturday, let us meditate on some cat names given to them lovingly, we assume, by their servants.

Foucault named his cat Insanity. 
Derrida named his cat Logos. 
Camus named his cat Cigarette.

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