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2010-07-09
Letter #9 - to someone I wish I'd met - Leonardo da Vinci
Dear Leonardo,
You were the greatest thinker, inventor and dreamer to have ever been born. Whenever I read one of your journals, I am awestruck by your brilliance. Your need to understand, to explore and know rivals my own. So few people recognize your greatness as more than the painter of the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but they should.
I wish I could have met you and picked your brain. To speak with you about science and engineering would have been a dream come true.
Sadly while I could time travel back to meet you, sir, I cannot. Unlike many of my contemporaries with that ability, I know the dangers of causing a change in history that creates yet another alternate reality is not acceptable. My curiosity will have to be sated reading your many journals. Luckily I have no trouble reading your backward mirror image writing.
Most people think of Einstein as the great brain, but for me, Leonardo, that title is yours.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Gray
The Letter Blog
( Some of Leonardo's works )
Dear Leonardo,
You were the greatest thinker, inventor and dreamer to have ever been born. Whenever I read one of your journals, I am awestruck by your brilliance. Your need to understand, to explore and know rivals my own. So few people recognize your greatness as more than the painter of the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but they should.
I wish I could have met you and picked your brain. To speak with you about science and engineering would have been a dream come true.
Sadly while I could time travel back to meet you, sir, I cannot. Unlike many of my contemporaries with that ability, I know the dangers of causing a change in history that creates yet another alternate reality is not acceptable. My curiosity will have to be sated reading your many journals. Luckily I have no trouble reading your backward mirror image writing.
Most people think of Einstein as the great brain, but for me, Leonardo, that title is yours.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Gray
The Letter Blog
( Some of Leonardo's works )
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The colors and texture reminded me of the mixed berry pie I had a few weeks ago at the diner. It was warm and stuck to my fingers. It didn’t smell as good of course. It smelled of copper and death, but I did like the taste of the blood it on my fingers when I brought my thumbnail to my mouth to worry at it.
“I’m afraid I can’t fix you, Brian, but I think I’ve figured out how to fix me.” I pushed my fingers back into his brain, and smiled when I found what made him special.
100 Drabbles of Summer Master List
“I’m afraid I can’t fix you, Brian, but I think I’ve figured out how to fix me.” I pushed my fingers back into his brain, and smiled when I found what made him special.
100 Drabbles of Summer Master List
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I looked in the mirror, being extra careful to get my hair to lay just right. Mom would see the difference in me if I wasn’t careful, and I needed her to see Gabriel. I felt like a hermit crab, trading one shell for the next as I pulled on Gabe’s brown cord jacket instead of my black pea coat.
That’s when I heard them in the studio. The sound of two hearts beating, but when I looked they were gone. It’s not paranoia if they are out to get you. There were lots of people out to get me.
100 Drabbles of Summer Master List
That’s when I heard them in the studio. The sound of two hearts beating, but when I looked they were gone. It’s not paranoia if they are out to get you. There were lots of people out to get me.
100 Drabbles of Summer Master List
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