hi

Ever heard of the mediterrenean sea? as i flew over it from Italy to Tunisia, funnily enough, it looked exactly as its basic description might relate to you. i widish expanse of water - but not so much so that a good hour of aero-transport could not traverse it - that seperates two continents. But what was not at first apparent from this description and not intitially visible from my two eyes, was an immense sense of depth, not from under those distant fine waves below my plane window, but through (the concept of) time. Empires and navies, triremes to aircraft carriers, had all inhabited this space in another time.

The centre of the Earth, where Phoenecians, Vandals, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Almohads and Arabs, Ottomans, Italians, French, British, and others, had all grasped at this space and (mostly) recoiled back into history of time. in just over an hour I had seen it all. ***this description of time and space is somewhat problematic according to certain theories of relativity, which do not distinguish between time and space but inculde them as a single concept - im reading Brian Greene at the moment; 'The Fabric of the Cosmos'. however, for literary purposes 'time' and 'space' are mine to be used however i wish...*** Then came Tunisia.


could i have a photo?! omg... although it has no relevance to this post that picture was taken in the centre of Tunisia out in the white sand desert at Dawn (ie. before sunrise) 5 days ago. im gonna do some homwork now but will be back soon, insh'allah.