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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Stephen Crane: "A man saw a ball of gold..."


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File:Entering a Lunar Outpost.jpg

Astronauts entering a Lunar outpost: concept art by NASA, 15 May 2006 (NASA)


A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he achieved it --
It was clay.

Now this is the strange part:

When the man went to the earth
And looked again,
Lo, there was the ball of gold.
Now this is the strange part:
It was a ball of gold.
Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.



http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/images/exploration/lunarexploration/lores/s86_27256.jpg

Lunar base and extra-base activity: concept art by NASA/Dennis Davidson, June 1986 (NASA)

for Ron Padgett

Stephen Crane: "A man saw a ball of gold...", from The Black Riders and Other Lines, 1895

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