tiny glassy “pearls” called microtektites found in fossilised shell remains .
- “for 13 years scientists have been clueless to the origin of these translucent beads”
- “new evidence suggests that the pearls are microtektites, a byproduct of an ancient meteorite impact”
- “these cosmic remains were encapsulated in two to three million year old shell fossils”
Alencon. last quarter 18th century.
Credit line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/218845
"Over time, moments occur that are very similar to one another. The threads of time have their knots and tangles, and every so often there is a symmetry, every once in a while something repeats, as if refrains and motifs were controlling them, a troubling thing to notice. Such order tends to overburden the mind, which cannot know how to respond. Chaos has always seemed more familiar and safe, like the disarray in your own drawer."
— Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
