The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday October 6th, 2022
The Keyhole by Jan Sand
I caught an interview on the radio, the other day, of an astronaut who described the qualification tests. On a trip to outer space they are confined for days to the control cabin of the shuttle and a slightly larger space behind the cabin so anyone with claustrophobic tendencies has to be eliminated. The test for that consists in being confined in a small closed spherical space for half an hour while various physiological functions are monitored to discover major discomfort or panic. If no problem is discovered the trainee is accepted for that difficulty anyway.
The human skull is a somewhat distorted hollow sphere and in its dark interior lies the brain where all sensual input is received and coordinated. Obviously the consciousness is located somewhere inside that huge tangle of nerves in the dark but no one, as far as I know, suffers claustrophobia for that confinement. Nevertheless, all the brain knows about the exterior world must enter through the very small keyhole of its several few senses.
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Sunflowers #poem by Neil Leadbeater
“Russian Giants were our favourites –
they could top ten feet
with flowers to match
and a big broad smile that was designed to catch
undivided attention.”
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Screws & Chips #43 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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