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On the surface, it deals with the worn out issue of the intermingling of life and the media. Examples for such incestuous relationships abound: Ronald Reagan, the cinematic president was also a presidential movie star. The resulting images are continuously posted on the Web and are available to anyone with a computer.
For a long time the greatest observed proper motion was that of a small star 1830 Groombridge, nearly 7" a year; but others have since been found reaching as much as 10". Now the spectroscope enables the motion of stars to be detected at a single observation, but only that part of the motion that is in the line of sight.
"What time do you think it is, Frank?" was what Will said. "Close to eleven," was the immediate reply. "Did you guess that, or are you reading the answer in the stars?" continued Will. "See that bright star a little way above the horizon?" asked Frank. "Well, that's Mercury, and when it drops out of sight to-night it'll be just eleven.
And empty hands are out-stretched in vain, While aching eyes beseech, And hearts may break that cry for the Moon, The silver Moon out of reach! But sometimes God on His great white Throne Looks down from the Heaven above, And lays in the hands that are empty The tremulous Star of Love.
The space might have accommodated two thousand persons, but on the seats of a material resembling ivory, each of them separately formed and gathered in irregular clusters there were not, I thought, more than four hundred or five hundred men and women intermingled; the former dressed for the most part in green, the latter in pink or white, and all wearing the silver band and star.
The reflectors are here also ranged upon a frame, with faces which are made to revolve with considerable rapidity; and the light thus emerging from a partial state of darkness exhibits a momentary flash, resembling a star of the first magnitude, and thereby produces a very striking effect.
A star or planet that has been in the sky every day of the observer's life suddenly "takes off at high speed on a highly erratic flight path." Or a vapor trail from a high-flying jet seen a hundred times before by the observer becomes a flying saucer. Some psychologists explain such aberrations as being akin to the crowd behavior mechanism at work in the "bobby-sox craze."
The Prioress moved to the window. The sunset was over. The evening star shone, like a newly-lighted lamp, in a pale purple sky. The fleet-winged swallows had gone to rest. Bats flitted past the casement, like homeless souls who know not where to go. Low chanting began in the cells; the nuns, with open doors, singing Miserere.
Then Herod privily summoned to him these three Kings, and learned of them the time that the Star appeared, and so sent them forth unto Bethlehem, saying: "Go and inquire busily of this Child, and when you have found Him, come and tell me, that I may go and do Him worship."
So you see, good-night." "Mebbe it will come out all right, Jen mebbe!" said the old man. But Jen did not reply. She was thinking hard, her eyes upon the Prairie Star. Living life to the hilt greatly illumines the outlook of the mind. She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition. There was a long silence again.
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