The Fountain, Too Fast for Shadows
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Why is a fountain in an urban environment so inviting and, at least to some extent, so calming? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss human fountain culture and the seeming benefits of urban blue space.
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| 1:46.7 | Hey you welcome to Stuff To Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Joe McCormick. |
| 1:52.0 | So the title for this episode comes from a poem by English poet Elizabeth Jennings. It was 1926 |
| 1:59.3 | through 2001. This poem contains the lines. Observe it there. The fountain. Too fast for shadows. |
| 2:07.7 | Too wild for the lights which illuminate it to hold. Even a moment. An ounce of water back. |
| 2:14.9 | The poem in full details how we might observe a fountain in an urban center and makes a comparison |
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