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

[Gerald Flaherty]

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From: "Matthias Bärmann" <majbaermann at web.de>
To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; <info at niger-meteorite-recon.de>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?




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

I unequivocally concur and relish the long solitude of aphelion for the 
brief vulnerability of fame at perihelion.