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  • What comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his Bowels?

    Chris Rodda: To the United States Marine Corps -- re: Farting in Afghanistan Chris Rodda 2011

  • Makes me think of a theory on Vile Vortices, the theory suggests Vile Vortices are like Bermuda triangles which all share the same latitude, this latitude lines up with Portland, Figi, Nigeria (tunisia) & possibly the island.

    The Tail Section » UPDATE: Why Must the Oceanic Six Reunite? 2008

  • This is not meant to dispel other theories, like the Vile Vortices, which I am growing fonder of each day, or conscious time travel, which I am still a bit wary of.

    The Tail Section » Readers Theorize About “The Shape of Things to Come” 2008

  • Vortices of limbs ossify into cathedrals; overlapping anatomies become windows and valves.

    BLDGBLOG on Body Baroque (with a side of Veniss Underground) 2009

  • Vortices,” and the subtile matter; but we full well know, that when God made Moses a great legislator and prophet, it was no part of His scheme to make him also a professor of physics.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Vortices of flame twisted, hellish dancers with the grace of a streamer in the wind and the appetite of a demon-

    Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • Vortices, varying in degrees of size and intensity, are localized spots of heightened energies radiating from key positions on crisscrossing grids.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • Vortices, varying in degrees of size and intensity, are localized spots of heightened energies radiating from key positions on crisscrossing grids.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • For if we take a line of force, composed as it is of aetherial vortex atoms, and suppose them to be rotating, we know that by that rotation there will be a tension due to that rotation, and Maxwell has shown this tension is due to magnetism, as in his standard work he says: "This magnetic force is the effect of the Centrifugal Force of the Vortices."

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Vortices may be called an occult quality because their existence was never proved.

    Letter XV-On Attraction Voltaire 1909

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