August 5, 2007
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Smiles of a Summer Evening:
Lucero
Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter VI:
“What
have I got out of my life? Contacts with famous men… The occasion
Einstein asked me the time, for instance. That summer evening….
smiles when I say I don’t know. And yet asked me. Yes: the great Jew,
who has upset the whole world’s notions of time and space, once leaned
down… to ask me… ragged freshman… at the first approach of the
evening star, the time. And smiled again when I pointed out the clock
neither of us had noticed.”To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, 1973:
“Mary-Molly
luv, it’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the
Talented in the scheme of things. Not society, mind you, for we’re the
original nonconformists…. and Society will never permit us to
integrate. That’s okay!” He consigned Society to
insignificance with a flick of his fingers. “The Talented form
their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather.
No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the
poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us.
You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”From Holt Spanish and English Dictionary, 1955:
lucero m Venus
(as morning or evening star);
bright star…
star (in forehead of animal)….
Scarlett Johansson and friend
in “The Horse Whisperer” (1998)
