“Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

Acis, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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