finity

A culled gemmen kin change his min 'when he sees dat de' finity's done gone. "

Taken Alive Edward Payson Roe 1863

Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity, — the ceaseless flow of the tides, the fury of the storm, the shock of the earthquake, the long roll of heaven's artillery, — but the most tremendous, the most stupefying of all, is the passive phase of the White Silence.

“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity, — the ceaseless flow of the tides, the fury of the storm, the shock of the earthquake, the long roll of heaven's artillery, — but the most tremendous, the most stupefying of all, is the passive phase of the White Silence.

THE WHITE SILENCE 2010

Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity, — the ceaseless flow of the tides, the fury of the storm, the shock of the earthquake, the long roll of heaven's artillery, — but the most tremendous, the most stupefying of all, is the passive phase of the White Silence.

The White Silence 2010

The sheer finity of death is part of what bothers me.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity, -- the ceaseless flow of the tides, the fury of the storm, the shock of the earthquake, the long roll of heaven's artillery, -- but the most tremendous, the most stupefying of all, is the passive phrase of the White Silence.

“. . .confusion to the Mounted Police!” 2008

What happens when an unstoppable force (growth-and-consumption driven capitalism) meets an immovable object (the laws of Nature and Nature's finity)?

Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."

Ghosts of Summers Past: Simone weakyknee 2009

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."

Archive 2009-09-01 weakyknee 2009

And not just what we call life - the animal and the vegetable - but the mineral: stars, galaxies, dark matter, time-space, finity itself: all subject to same iron laws of decay and death.

Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words of America's Greatest Comedian 2009