These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label constellations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constellations. Show all posts

Monday, August 12, 2013

The silence of untranslated stars
























     …you can look at something, close your eyes, and see it again and still know nothing – like staring at the sky to figure out the distances between stars.
     -Ann Beattie, Jacklighting
     Image:  Laure Albin-Guillot, Planche XVI Diatomée, 1931
               Title: e.e. cummings, adapted from "Summer Silence"

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Blind Astronomer

 
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
—Elias Canetti



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