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...Grofith, a mythical bird who dies with the last note. She dies too, along with her mysterious auditor. It is Agnon's anguished challenge to his own quest: the past is alien, and unrecoverable, and he who seeks it is destined to live in the limbo between the sunset and the dawn...
...songs. "I've always had a feeling for the other side of the piano," he says. Looking like a walrus in repose, he plays for three hours at a clip, occasionally breaks out his "polished Louis Armstrong voice." He claims that his version of Canadian Sunset is great for loosening up his upper arms and shoulders...
...victim of captured rotation. Just as the earth's gravity has locked the near side of the moon toward it, they theorized, the sun's enormous gravity had caused the same hemisphere of Mercury to face the sun perpetually, with never a dawn or sunset...
...longitudes where dawn could be observed during the solar reversal, the sun would seem to rise slowly until more than half of it was above the eastern horizon. Then it would set below the same horizon, and soon rise again before heading for a more normal sunset in the west...
...Sunset. A blue Buddha dissolves into a large grey Teddy bear that weeps tears the size of a quarter. A little girl stabs a pig. A little boy urinates. Sixty white gloves run run run across a table. Bits of broken plaster abruptly assemble themselves into a bust of Dante. An egg cracks and marbles tumble out. A python oozes lazily around a large transparent bowl in which a child is huddled. Beside a giant telescope stands an old man, his ears blazing like light bulbs. On a narrow cot, a nude woman sits giggling and jiggling while an enormous...