Volume 14 (Libi to Mary): Light.
After yesterday's angst, I am relieved to offer some light relief - pun intended.
Fiat lux, let there be light - Genesis verse 3, offered here to you in both Latin and English. This is actually one of the few bits of Latin that I can remember - it is not clear to me why that should be so. I have Latin O level thanks entirely to the brilliant master, Stanley Calvert, who dragged me through the subject in a year. I had spent the previous three years being thoroughly beastly to another teacher who was a perfect gent but who tolerated my wilful and total inattention. I carry shame.
Still on the subject of O levels, I also have one in Physics, the only science in which I have taken a public examination. I liked the subject (good teaching goes a long way in masking inaptitude - thank you Andy Pargeter) and loved the contemplation of light and those drawings of the actions of lenses on light waves. Refraction is a nice word and I shall leave you with what my great friend TPW (himself a physics graduate) would describe as physics in action, more specifically physics in art - a contender for most recognisable album cover ever, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
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