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lava

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forest fire

lightning

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continent

ocean

geology

geography

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pick-up line

activism

lava lamp

is such that maybe it is not its destructiveness that pleases most, ( though everyone loves a conflagration) but its defiance of the law of gravity to which every inorganic mass is subject.

Maybe it is not the destructiveness of the volcano that pleases most, though everyone loves a conflagration, but its defiance of the law of gravity to which every inorganic mass is subject. What pleases first at the sight of the plant world is its vertical upward direction. That is why we love trees. Perhaps we attend to a volcano for its elevation, like ballet. How high the molten rocks soar, how far above the mushrooming cloud. The thrill is that the mountain blows itself up, even if it must then like the dancer return to earth... even if it does not simply descend it falls, falls on us. But first it goes up, it flies. Whereas everything pulls, drags down. Down.' Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance

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