Definition #314 Under water swimming

 “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

About the evolution of the brain

and the development of consciousness in humans,

he wrote:

“For the first time in 4 billion years a living creature had contemplated himself

and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of wind in the night reeds”

Loren Eiseley