[meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?

[Matthias Bärmann]

Here I've got something which could be a good mantra for all of us who will
be lucky enough to see our January comet this evening.
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), a more than legitimate resident of
Parnassus, wrote - as I don't have an official English translation
here, please excuse my private try - the original is much better.

"Möcht' ich ein Komet seyn? Ich glaube. Denn sie haben die Schnelligkeit der
Vögel; sie blühen an Feuer, und sind wie Kinder an Reinheit."

"Do I want to be a comet? I believe so. Because they own the velocity of
birds; they're blossoming with fire and are like children in innocence."

(quoted from the poem 'In lieblicher Bläue'/'In lovely blueness'; by the 
way: great American painter Sam Francis once dedicated a real masterwork to 
this poem - a good example for the  r e a l  globalization ...)

Matthias Baermann





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
To: "'Matthias Bärmann'" <majbaermann at web.de>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:15 PM
Subject: AW: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?


"wohl aber merkte ich, daß die Leute verändert waren, zu flüstern begannen,
wenn ich in die Nähe kam und mich mitleidig ansahen. Die bulgarischen
Mädchen flüsterten nicht, sie sagten es alles heraus und von ihnen erfuhr
ich, auf ihre derbe Art, daß das Ende der Welt gekommen sei. Es war der
allgemeine Glaube in der Stadt und er muß eine Weile vorgeherrscht haben, da
es sich mir, ohne daß ich mich selbst vor etwas Bestimmten fürchtete, so
tief einprägte." ...Eines Nachts hieß es, jetzt sei der Komet da und jetzt
werde er auf die Erde fallen. Ich wurde nicht schlafen geschickt, ich hörte
jemand sagen, das hätte jetzt keinen Sinn, die Kinder sollten auch in den
Garten kommen."

Wer?

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Matthias
Bärmann
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 22:51
An: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?



Quiz (Svend Bugl out of contest):

A famous German author of 20th century was so lucky to see Halley twice, in
full consciousness, and wrote a book about this experience.

Who was it (don't google, have a look around in your private libraries :-)

Matthias Baermann


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?


> Gary disappointedly comments:
>
> Clouds to the west the last two nights.  I got
> some good sunset pics, but no comet :( Gary
>
> Now, drum roll, ... my comment:
>
> Clouds here to the west, east, north and south the last two nights :-(
> Thomas Tuchan must have been extremely lucky ... his home town Ulm
> is only about 200 km from where I live. Sincere congrats, Thomas!
>
> Well, you can't have it all - I saw Halley, I saw Hale-Bopp, I saw
> Hyakutake, ... plus some telescopic comets, so I shouldn't complain!
>
> Cometary Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
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