I expect the reference is to the novel by Jules Verne "Le Rayon Vert". It is a story of adventurers seeking but never finding the legendary green flash or rayon vert. It is a great analogy on our struggles through life. I believe they made a movie of it but as usual the book is better, in this case "en Francais"
Roger Bailey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Aubert Sent: November 14, 2002 7:10 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: The "Green Flash" I lived, for three years, in a house in Rabat, Morocco, dating from the 1930's, that was built in what was then a section of the city designed as residences for the French quasi-colonial administrators. The front wall still had a tile insert bearing the name somebody had once bestowed on it: "Le rayon vert". I never thought too hard about its meaiing but always interpreted it as as "the green stripe" -- a reference to the grounds which formed a narrow but long green garden between two streets. But seeing it as a move title, it sounds like "le rayon vert" is a reference to something else -- probably a literary reference. Can any francophone readers here identify meaning of the "rayon vert" beyond its literal meaning of green stripe, ray or flash? Jack Aubert At 05:20 PM 11/11/2002 +0100, Thierry van Steenberghe wrote: >Robert Terwilliiger wrote: > > > > > Some time ago the list was discussing the "green flash" occasionally > > reported at sunsets. > > > > There is a good photograph on "Astronomy Picture of the Day" > > > > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021110.html > > > > Bob Terwilliger > > > > - > >Can't remember this discussion... probably some *long* time ago? > >Just for the sake of information, there was (a few years ago!) a nice >movie by Eric Rohmer called 'Le rayon vert' (the green flash). Nearly >nothing to do with astronomy, except that the characters attend many >sunsets in the hope of seeing the green flash, and in the end, they see >one. That's the time to make a wish! > >Cheers, >Thierry > >-- >__________________________________ > >Thierry van Steenberghe >50.5 N 4.3 E >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >__________________________________ > > > > >- - -
