fg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 12:08 AM Subject: RE: The "Green Flash"
> 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] > >__________________________________ > > > > > > > > > >- > > > - > > - > -
