OT: Who's eating the moon?

[Rich Grise]

Was there supposed to be an eclipse tonight?

If not, the moon is broken.

Can we blame the liberals?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[CFoley1064]

Subject: OT: Who's eating the moon?
From: Rich Grise rich@example.net
Date: 10/27/2004 8:58 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <pan.2004.10.28.02.02.58.799291@example.net

Was there supposed to be an eclipse tonight?

If not, the moon is broken.

Can we blame the liberals?

Thanks,
Rich

I took my twelve year old daughter out to see it -- she just came in and went
to bed. This was her first eclipse-- it tends to be cloudy and rainy on lunar
eclipse nights around these parts. She was suitably impressed, in a twelve
year old daughter sort of way. Somewhat less impressed than her dad...

"The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land,
and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought
pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing:
there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."

Thanks, Rich, and good night.
Chris

 

[xray]

On 28 Oct 2004 03:24:35 GMT, cfoley1064@aol.com (CFoley1064) wrote:

"The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land,
and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought
pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing:
there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."

I hope that turns out to be an apt summary of this US election period.

Excuse my ignorance; who was the author?

 

[Paul Burke]

xray wrote:

On 28 Oct 2004 03:24:35 GMT, cfoley1064@aol.com (CFoley1064) wrote:


"The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land,
and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought
pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing:
there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."

Sounds like one of the purple passages from Tolkien, say LOTR.

Paul Burke

 

[Paul Burridge]

On 28 Oct 2004 03:24:35 GMT, cfoley1064@aol.com (CFoley1064) wrote:

I took my twelve year old daughter out to see it -- she just came in and went
to bed. This was her first eclipse-- it tends to be cloudy and rainy on lunar
eclipse nights around these parts. She was suitably impressed, in a twelve
year old daughter sort of way. Somewhat less impressed than her dad...

They're a non-event, aren't they? I don't bother any more. Saw one
once, yawned, went back to bed.
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.