thank you lloyd (I guess)
The etymological root (or jumping off point) being saltus, leap: “biology: an evolutionary hypothesis emphasizing sudden and drastic change; geology: a process of particle transport by fluids;…
“saltation, the process by which flying sand grains land and kick yet more grains into the air” - what else works like this? (for the analogy library?)
…like the short video clips you find on your camera where you took a video when you meant to take a photo.
Byron also kept a bear while he was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge (reputedly out of resentment of Trinity rules forbidding pet dogs—he later suggested that the bear apply for a college…
