----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Bärmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:55 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?
Here I've got something which could be a good mantra for all of us who will be lucky enough to see our January comet this evening. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), a more than legitimate resident of Parnassus, wrote - as I don't have an official English translation here, please excuse my private try - the original is much better. "Möcht' ich ein Komet seyn? Ich glaube. Denn sie haben die Schnelligkeit der Vögel; sie blühen an Feuer, und sind wie Kinder an Reinheit." "Do I want to be a comet? I believe so. Because they own the velocity of birds; they're blossoming with fire and are like children in innocence." (quoted from the poem 'In lieblicher Bläue'/'In lovely blueness'; by the way: great American painter Sam Francis once dedicated a real masterwork to this poem - a good example for the r e a l globalization ...) Matthias Baermann I unequivocally concur and relish the long solitude of aphelion for the brief vulnerability of fame at perihelion. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
