Starting from the point of view of Euclidean spacetime, the spacetime vectors and spinors that are related by Wick rotation to Minkowski spacetime degrees of freedom behave differently than usual, with a distinguished imaginary time direction.
Summary of a recent talk by Peter Woit on his blog
Submitted by kad. I think of myself as sometimes operating in a "distinguished imaginary time direction."
I'm obsessed with writing that has a real autograph about it.
Andrew Scott in an interview in the New York Times
All previous twelve hours are compressed into underdeveloped snapshots: her memory of the backs of the passengers' heads and the way the rain made the city lights look like strung-up tennis bracelet diamonds.
Wrong Way, Joanne McNeil
Other bangers from this novel:
Driving south feels like the arms of the city push you out; you are shoved from the jangly city chaos to the car soup of the suburbs.
Outside it, she's queen of a precious rock.
Even though there’s complexity to the flavor, it’s entirely overpowered by tannins and funkiness, like a bottle of red wine opened and forgotten in a beach house for a couple of years, until you find it in the back of the cupboard and decide to try it because it’s 30 miles to the nearest store and you can only find one flip flop.
"I tried the viral ‘healthy Coke’ with balsamic vinegar and it’s not as bad as it sounds", Heather Martin for the Today Show blog
Submitted by Wesley.
Incredible sentence, incredible context.
To long means not to find joy in anything here, except shyly.
In the presence of absence, Mahmoud Darwish
via Instagram, probably Mary posted it but I can't remember.
The country was low and swampy, sawgrass and tule, tufted hummocks among the scrub trees.
Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
Via Today in Tabs.
I walked around the apartment as if I already owned it, as if within my lifetime the lobby beneath us would not be decorated with kelp.
"Heaven or High Water", Sarah Miller for Popula
Submitted by v.
This book has impossible aspirations.
The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise, David Livingstone
An extremely bold first sentence to a book!