[meteorite-list] "The Fallen Sky" Redux
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Thu Jul 23 23:30:07 EDT 2009
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:10:03 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Listees:
>
>More about Chris Cokinos' new meteorite book "The Fallen Sky" here:
>
>http://meteoriteblog.org/
Oh, and that quote you gave (which I'll reproduce below) is an excellent
illustration of why I'm finding the book tedius already. That prose is deeply
purple.
The olivine, which on Earth is the gemstone peridot, seems to glow from
within. Slices of pallasites look a bit like the coat of a metal leopard with
green spots . . . Brenham olivine is autumnal and ethereal, like an October
forest and sky in a luminist painting. The curves of metal looks like sinuous
paths connecting lakes seen from on high. A slice of Brenham? Its a silver
sponge that soaks up light.
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