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...creation of this work," he might say, "was accomplished in my small study. There in the presence of the artifacts of my life--various pieces of stone, various edges of brass, the Mobius strip of my intellect. The lighting was dim, the room was a cave my mind was the world...
...whole business. As was Annie, come to think of it. Since the weather was uniformly fine and their mates on the hotel staff, being lower class and English, were politely eccentric, it is hard to see anything about the experience that was unpleasant. Even sitting through the rather dim and distant movie about that long-ago event (the film is set in 1962) can hardly be classed as a chore...
...helium to nearly 4° above absolute zero (-459.7° F) so that their own heat will not impede observations, picked up infrared emissions from more than 200,000 sources. Most of these celestial pinpoints are much too cool to have been recorded by conventional telescopes. Many are extremely dim young stars, just beginning to be stoked by their nuclear fires. Others are distant galaxies, perhaps millions or even billions of light-years away...
Goode hopes to garner a third of the white vote, thereby emerging as a majority mayor. Such a win would help dim the nation's memory of Chicago's sometimes ugly mayoral battle. Goode would then be the fourth black mayor running one of the nation's ten largest cities...
Behold, what fullback through yonder defense breaks? It is Steve Ernst, and Harvard is the sun. Yet, see, the Crimson doth itself appear, as doth the blushing discontented sun from out the fiery portal of the Ivy League, when it perceives the envious Crusaders are bent to dim its glory and to stain the record of its bright passage through the 1983 schedule...