Six year coma (rainbows)
Mark Wright AIA
mwaia at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 23 13:38:22 CDT 2003
We saw our rainbow near sunset. It was a *perfect thing*. When it faded
-- in the mater of a minute or so it was gone -- we turned around and
by jingo there was this amazing sunset? It was a very good omen...it
reminded me of our...Imperial Battle Flag!
--- grip at speakeasy.net wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mark Wright AIA wrote:
>
> > A month ago we went to Boston
> > and on the drive up we saw the best rainbow any of us had ever
> seen:
> > clear as a bell, arcing perfectly from ground to ground, with clear
> > bright colors and even a faint inverted rainbow outside of the
> primary.
> > We pulled off the road to watch it for a while. Everybody else saw
> it
> > too. Many cars pulled off the road to look, each from his own point
> of
> > view, and each loading it with private or shared symbolism. It is
> the
> > *symbolism* that has no basis in "reality", not our perception of
> the
> > phenomenon.
>
> A few years ago on the way to a calculus class at 6:30AM (YAWN) I saw
> a lovely
> full arch rainbow. I took my class out to look at it and noticed the
> secondary
> which was almost full also and just the hint of the tertiary which I
> had never
> seen before. I stood there marveling at the beauty, pointing out that
> in my 55
> years I had never seen such a perfect rainbow nor the tertiary. There
>
> reaction? "Can we go in now?"
>
> Regarding Bank's, Wasp Factory and TRP, there's a punk rock band
> called the
> Vomits.
>
> Lawrence
>
>
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