#25 june

Television itself was still a bit of a novelty in 1951, but color television? Futuristic. The audience at an hour-long inaugural color TV program by CBS watch the proceedings, June 25, 1951. The pictures were also broadcast to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. via network relay.

Then I think to myself - how do they know that they can do that? I mean, I've never even tried to do that. So how do they know that this is a possibility for them?

So I ask myself: why have I never tried to do that? I have never thought, for a second in my life, that I would be able to walk vertically up a wall or upside down on a ceiling.

And I think it is because I can feel that I can't. It's proprioception or gravity or whatnot, I don't know. But being in these bodies that we are in, even as a baby, I think, we can feel that walking up the wall is not a possibility for us.

And then, inevitably, I find myself thinking: so how does it feel for these insects to walk up a wall or on a ceiling? What kind of bodily experience does that entail? What does it feel like to know that it is even a possibility? What is it like to be a silverfish?

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the dove from the ark: a symbol that hardship is over

lighted: landed

vaporous garment: clothes made of fog, in a figurative sense

molested: disturbed, harassed

sash: a frame in which the panes of a window or door are set

loophole: a small hole or slit in a wall through which small arms may be fired