Eclipse

 

I'll replace this pic with one of my own if I get anything worth posting at all.

Something oddly familiar about this pattern. I know! It looks like my FINGERNAILS!!!

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No more be grieved at that which thou hast done;

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,

And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.

All men make faults, and even I in this . . .

~William Shakespeare

(shamelessly taken out of context from Sonnet 35)

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse.
All is well, provided the light returns
and the eclipse does not become endless night.
Dawn and resurrection are synonymous.
The reappearance of the light
is the same as the survival of the soul.

~Victor Hugo
(thinking this is true of other institutions, not just nations)

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An unexciting truth

may be eclipsed

by a thrilling lie.

~Aldous Huxley

(sad, sad, sad)

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In 1638, Harvard University had just been founded, the Salem witch trials had yet to begin, Galileo had just lost his eyesight -- and the moon was blotted out by the shadow of the Earth.

It was also the solstice, a celestial coincidence that wouldn't happen again for another 372 years. Not until tonight. 

So break out the flashlights. Because when a full lunar eclipse takes place on the shortest day of the year, North America may get awfully dark.

But if the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature's most beautiful spectacles.

~Foxnews.com

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~End Quote