Why do we love water so much? Perhaps it is because it is the original element. Before we were caveman discovering fire, and discovering simultaneously that we were flammable, we lived in pre-historic pools of toxic sludge. Now today’s pools lack that intoxicating combination of carbon monoxide glass and flesh eating acids, but they make up for it with urinary tract byproducts that have been neutralized, if not erased, by enormous quantities of chlorine. So we immerse ourselves in the blue water and steep ourselves in millennia of history. In the end we emerge shriveled and pruned, but with a feeling that maybe things haven’t changed that much. Then we catch sight of the snack bar hawking its icy wares and think that if thing have changed just a little it was probably for the better.
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Great minds must thing alike! Here's a link to an article about water (Small, Yes, but Mighty: The Molecule Called Water) that appears in today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10angi.html?8dpc
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