Of course, people have long been drawn to these weird but lovable plants, enthralled by visions of man-eaters out of "Little Shop of Horrors".
Contemporaries recall how Rousseau was so in thrall to his visions of man-eaters in the French colonies of Senegal and Dahomey that while he was constructing their improbable hunts, he would sometimes have to go and open a window, take a deep breath, let the oppressive jungle air out from his little studio.
Visions of men in disguises renting rooms, setting up telescopes and video cameras, and gleaning valuable information from the opposition.
More frequently, they conjure up visions of men in cloaks, Jethro Tull, Muse, an even more free-jazz Santana and a scale model of Stonehenge.
I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?…How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" …How long?
There King addressed the crowd, delivering what would become known as his "How Long, Not Long" speech, which culminated in his recitation of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic": I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?…How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" …How long?
Success in manned spaceflight requires an extraordinarily long-range commitment, and a vision of man's future that cannot be erased by a single calamity or even a series of them.
The highly developed sense of smell among dogs, for instance, supplements the sharper vision of man.
In a sign of the bet's symbolic value, the Competitive Enterprise Institute created the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2001 to celebrate his "vision of Man as the Ultimate Resource".
Dante's Divine Comedy, a great work of medieval literature, is a profound Christian vision of man's temporal and eternal destiny.
