wonders

Daston and Park speak a great deal about the passion and the emotion of wonder as well as wonders as physical objects that have a topographical location. I like that they locate wonders at the edge of the word or on "the margins of nature". This is how I think of wonders, they are far off places or things that may exist and which I would some day hope to see. I think that we have to think of wonders as far off an sort of unreachable because it is sometimes difficult to recognize everyday marvels (like Boyles glistening meat) if we dont look closely enough. I think that this idea that everything has to be proven or scientifically explainable in order to be worth caring about and in this first chapter of wonders and the order of nature Daston and Park attempt to refute that. Wonders are things which people (at least they used to) write novels about, or think about as part of the natural world or at least as a bridge between the natural and the unnatural.