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Harrington reckons that the moon (which Christy has tentatively named Charon after the mythological boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to the underworld ruled over by the god Pluto) is about 800 km (500 miles) in diameter. It lies in Pluto's equatorial plane and circles the planet once every 6 days 9 hr. and 17 min.-an interval identical to Pluto's own period of rotation. Hence, an observer on one side of Pluto would always see the moon in the same position in the sky. On the other side...
...BOATMAN" begins with a beautiful piano lead too, but it immediately comes down to earth, caught in the stasis of a relationship breaking apart. And it's the music again that seems to save her when she asks Mr. Boatman--her muse--to "Take my troubled dreams to the opposite shore and run my achin' heart to my baby once more." It's a desperate song, but the melody is so light that it's almost hypnotic, and that's what Waldman seems to be looking for: because there's just time...
...source of public water supplies. Chicago, for example, draws all its drinking water from Lake Michigan. By city ordinance in 1967. Chicago's boatmen were required to install holding tanks. Though boatmen sputtered, the regulations were reasonable. For one thing, Chicago provided sufficient pump-out stations. Thus no boatman need be caught with an overflowing holding tank and no place to go. For another, the plumbing for direct overboard venting could be left in place; thus, boatmen could cruise to other areas that lacked pump-out stations. Because Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin have passed equivalent legislation, Lake Michigan...
Even if New York's coasts had enough pump-out stations, interstate absurdities would remain. A boatman from New Jersey, which has no such law, is subject to being boarded and charged with an offense while passing through New York waters to Connecticut, which has no pump-out stations. A New Yorker leaving his home port on western Long Island Sound for Massachusetts or Maine is in violation of the law for the first few miles if he has an overboard flushing system. Yet he cannot cruise far beyond the Sound unless he has such a system. Meantime, critics...
...brimming with stacks of the dead and dying. Lichtblau dwells on the family and small social groups, enclosed in tightly-drawn, womb-like shapes which symbolize the vain attempts at insulation from a dying urban culture. The figures are trapped in the painting's debris. Behind them pushes the boatman, a favorite image of Lichtbrau, in Charon-like darkness, bearing a kneeling passenger...