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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
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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
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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
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Vortices of limbs ossify into cathedrals; overlapping anatomies become windows and valves.
BLDGBLOG on Body Baroque (with a side of Veniss Underground) 2009
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“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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vortices may be called an occult quality because their existence was never proved.
Letter XV-On Attraction Voltaire 1909
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