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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Caves thread https://t.co/TaKcT6PBCJ

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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1. Da Vinci discovering a fossil of a whale in a cave https://t.co/inN1YTkBNr

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 7 years ago

Love these passages about Leonardo contemplating fear and desire, the power and powerlessness of a mighty whale, existential dread and the inexorable reality of the passage of time https://t.co/J2gQZqtbIq

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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2. Shigeru Miyamoto getting the idea for Zelda in a cave https://t.co/0muYSWMBZP https://t.co/y68dKDlTKQ

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

In the 1950s, a few short years after the most powerful weapon in the history of humanity obliterated & maimed lives by the hundreds of thousands, a little boy was born in a rural Japanese town. He would spend his time exploring the countryside, going on wondrous adventures https://t.co/g10Pv4QXMC

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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3. Joseph Campbell pointing out that caves are a allegory for the sub-conscious, sub-cultural, where dangers and treasures both lie https://t.co/lm77Odwl4n

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago

Beneath the floor of the comparatively neat dwelling that we call our consciousness lie unsuspected Aladdin caves Here there be jewels and jinns, inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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4. Batu https://t.co/McyxhlmBq2

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

closer to (my) home, these are the Batu Caves in Selangor, Malaysia. These were excavated more recently, around 1890. I've visited a couple of times. There's a big Thaipusam festival here every year https://t.co/vgY0j2nTtb

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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5. Ellora https://t.co/uiOz76NCRx

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

The Kailasanatha Temple at Ellora, carved into a cliffside, is possibly the world’s largest monolithic structure. It was mostly excavated and carved in the mid-700s I love this sort of rock-cut architecture bc it's such a lovely blend of natural & human https://t.co/yjtLs56aED https://t.co/QcNUwL319I

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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6. Stockholm 🇸🇪 https://t.co/tZnDTggRU4

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

quick segue to some of Stockholm's subway stations, which are beautiful in the same way https://t.co/R27MXwYclR

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

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7. what if cave art was carefully designed to be viewed by firelight? https://t.co/x3G3rSvZDS

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