20 March, 2007

Happy Spring

Today is the vernal equinox which means that at 7:07 tonight, the sun will cross over the earth's equator. For the occasion, I've been listening to Jethro Tull's "March the Mad Scientist":

March The Mad Scientist

What would you like for Christmas:
a new polarity?
You're binary, and desperate to deal in high figures
that lick us with their hotter flame
lick each and everyone the same.
And March, the mad scientist,
brings a new change
in ever-dancing colours.

He rings it here and he rings it,
but no one stops to see
the change of fate and the fate of change
that slips into his pocket
so he locks it all away from view
and shares not what he thought you knew.
And April is summer-bound,
And February's blue.
And no one stops to see the colours.


On this date in history was the found of The Dutch East India Company in 1602 and publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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