Jul 23, 2008 8:28 AM CST Who sees the most beautiful stars, the poet or the astronomer?
dillydallyBehind the hills and Burns ..., Strathclyde, Scotland UK57 Threads2,697 Posts
dillydallyOPBehind the hills and Burns ..., Strathclyde, Scotland UK2,697 posts
The astronomer rips off her glasses, tosses them onto her workbench and closes her eyes to force the thousands of pinpricks of light she can't really see to manifest from the dot-matrix printouts scattered around her like the remnants of a ticker-tape parade for creatures much bigger than her, and waits for the numbers to coalesce into something beautiful.
She's been scanning the same distant corner of the night sky for six months because she knows, she just knows that there's something there. There has to be something there because the math is wrong; a radiative fluctuation with no perceived cause has been poking at her brain, a flashlight with dying batteries shined in her direction from eighty light-years away. Tomorrow she'll put in a request for another hour of telescope time, crank the massive array a fraction of a degree to the west and try again, with fresh coffee and newly-sharpened pencils and Aphex Twin on the stereo.
The poet steps out onto his roof and looks up through the city haze at pinpricks of light he can't really see, and lights a cigarette and closes his eyes and takes comfort in believing that what he suddenly sees will be proved, some day, by scientists with pencils in their hair.
well ...the old saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is true... and holds true for both the astronomer and poet... but the astronomer is too concerned with details... where, when, how far off, what the star is composed of... the poet is only concerned with the fact that they exist... and he is happy in knowing that simple fact...he sees more beautiful stars by using his heart. the same holds true in life... if you get too into details... you miss the big picture, and alot of times the big picture is beautiful. the answer of a hopeless romantic i guess...
alabamabebeBanks of the Warrior River, Alabama USA4,404 posts
joshua5599: well ...the old saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is true... and holds true for both the astronomer and poet... but the astronomer is too concerned with details... where, when, how far off, what the star is composed of... the poet is only concerned with the fact that they exist... and he is happy in knowing that simple fact...he sees more beautiful stars by using his heart. the same holds true in life... if you get too into details... you miss the big picture, and alot of times the big picture is beautiful. the answer of a hopeless romantic i guess...
The most beautiful stars are those you see looking in your lover's eyes.
dillydally: The astronomer rips off her glasses, tosses them onto her workbench and closes her eyes to force the thousands of pinpricks of light she can't really see to manifest from the dot-matrix printouts scattered around her like the remnants of a ticker-tape parade for creatures much bigger than her, and waits for the numbers to coalesce into something beautiful.
She's been scanning the same distant corner of the night sky for six months because she knows, she just knows that there's something there. There has to be something there because the math is wrong; a radiative fluctuation with no perceived cause has been poking at her brain, a flashlight with dying batteries shined in her direction from eighty light-years away. Tomorrow she'll put in a request for another hour of telescope time, crank the massive array a fraction of a degree to the west and try again, with fresh coffee and newly-sharpened pencils and Aphex Twin on the stereo.
The poet steps out onto his roof and looks up through the city haze at pinpricks of light he can't really see, and lights a cigarette and closes his eyes and takes comfort in believing that what he suddenly sees will be proved, some day, by scientists with pencils in their hair.what say you ??
me when i am able to see the eyes of my beloved one
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and closes her eyes to force the thousands of pinpricks of light she can't really see
to manifest from the dot-matrix printouts scattered around her like the
remnants of a ticker-tape parade for creatures much bigger than her,
and waits for the numbers to coalesce into something beautiful.
She's been scanning the same distant corner of the night sky for six months
because she knows, she just knows that there's something there.
There has to be something there because the math is wrong;
a radiative fluctuation with no perceived cause has been poking at her brain,
a flashlight with dying batteries shined in her direction from eighty light-years away.
Tomorrow she'll put in a request for another hour of telescope time,
crank the massive array a fraction of a degree to the west and try again,
with fresh coffee and newly-sharpened pencils and Aphex Twin on the stereo.
The poet steps out onto his roof and looks up through the city haze at pinpricks of light
he can't really see, and lights a cigarette and closes his eyes and takes comfort in believing
that what he suddenly sees will be proved, some day, by scientists with pencils in their hair.
what say you ??