Ghost Dance

those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; I felt its rhythm and I ‘heard’ its sound, and at that moment I knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of Dancers worshiped by the Hindus. (Capra 1983, p. 9) One quite unexpected development, particularly of the mid to late twentieth century, has been that physics has become detached from mathematics. This does not mean that physicists in general see their subject in terms of the dance of Shiva; Capra is to be seen as a symptom

rue Sarrasin, at a café called Le Bouc de Mer, where arrangements could be made for a more important appointment in Zurich. He lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling, the wash of the streetlamps below causing irregular patterns of light to dance across the smooth white surface. Night had come rapidly to Marseilles, and with its arrival a certain sense of freedom came to the patient. It was as if the darkness were a gigantic blanket, blocking out the harsh glare of daylight that revealed too

love, turned into the more tightly organized jeu parti; the ballade, originally a dance lyric, found a place beside the more relaxed rondeau and the formal chant royal before being annexed permanently for French prosody by Machaut and Villon. By the middle of the thirteenth century, others had been added: the chanson de toile (which expressed a female point of view), the farcical fatrasie, the virelai (another dance song) and the versatile dit which, until the fifteenth century, expressed love, satire

le but) parce qu’il est impossible de savoir dans quelle direction il va bondir, quand et surtout pourquoi. Sur AutreMonde, lorsque quelqu’un est très agité, on dit de lui qu’il est « dérangé comme un hop-hop ». P.-S. : À ne pas confondre avec la dance terrienne. — Puis-je, chère Heagle ? La commandante faillit lui dire qu’il allait probablement tomber lui aussi si elle prenait sa main, mais elle se retint. C’était gentil. Elle se hissa péniblement, s’aidant plus du mur et de ses muscles que de

du haut, ce n’est pas mal... Demandez LaLune. – Oui, mais malheureusement les Américains l’ont déjà faite l’année dernière. – Oui, intervient Marcello, les mains étaient celles de Patrick Swayze. Belles mains. Ils les avaient choisies pour le film Ghost, elles modelaient le vase en argile pendant la scène d’amour, les mains qui transme aient leur émo on à Demi Moore. Dans le spot, on ne voyait que ces mains. Payées, d’ailleurs, deux millions de dollars... – Voilà, dit Leonardo en se laissant aller