“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
“"The edge of evening … the long curve of people all wishing on the first star…. Always remember those men and women along the thousands of miles of land and sea. The true moment of shadow is the moment in which you see the point of light in the sky. The single point, and the Shadow that has just gathered you in its sweep …"
Always remember.
The first star hangs between his feet.
Now”
— Thomas Pynchon, book Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
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