Carl Sagan.
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos.
I’ve been listening to Cosmos while I work these last few days. Then I wanted to do some Carl Sagan fan art. Is that a thing? That should be a thing.
Because my grandparents on my mother’s side lived in Brooklyn, I would go to New York City and I would see these things. And it scared the hell out of me. In the subway I remember a wind from the approaching train, then a smell and sound. I could taste the horror every time I went to New York.
My grandfather owned an apartment building in Brooklyn with no kitchens. A man was cooking an egg on an iron—that really worried me. And every night he unscrewed his car aerial so gangs wouldn’t break it off. I could just feel fear in the air. It was great fuel for future fires.
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