“When he finds himself really in the presence of the starred sky, everything seems to escape him.The firmament is something that is up there, you can see that it exists, but from it you can derive no idea of dimensions or distance” Even that aspect to which he thought himself most sensitive, the smallness of our world compared to the vast distances, does not emerge directly. “Is this the exact geometry of the sidereal spaces, which Mr Palomar has so often felt the need to turn to, in order to detach himself from the Earth, that place of superfluous complications and confused approximations? When he finds himself really in the presence of the starred sky, everything seems to escape him. The “universe, collection of celestial bodies, nebulas, fine dust, fields of force, intersections of fields, collections of collections…”.“Is “the lawn” what we see or do we see one grass plus one grass plus one grass…?”.“No book can teach what can be learned only in childhood if you lend an alert ear and eye”.“For millions of centuries the sun’s rays rested on the water before there were eyes capable of perceiving them.”.“Is what we have in common precisely what is given to each of us as something exclusively his?”.The chapters could be condensed to form an abstract short story.
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