transit of venus

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, umberto rossi wrote:
> You didn't miss anything. Close your eyes. Immagine a big, square,
> pale-yellow sandstone building--a 17th C. fortress. Sunny day, not
> too hot,

[still, hot enough to drench the shirt and hair of a certain roofwalker
from the 65th latitude]

> a clear blue sky and a blue sea. Telescopes trained on the
> good ol' Phoebus in the sky. A Maltese stargazer holding a disc of
> paper with the big white ball projected on; a mole on its left lower
> quarter. You discover that the Sun is also simpatico, after all.
>
> And the positive influence of the transit may be felt even without
> having directly seen it, through the Mystickal communion of
> Pynchonites in the world...

And the trancy influence may have prevented this Nordie from uttering
the name of that other Maestro at the breakfast table; from running
amok on the Gut on the walking tour of Valletta; from letting loose
Dionysus when cruising the Grand Harbour on the yacht Hera, as H is
known to hate D; etc; etc; but it wouldn't prevent him from having to
leave the event at midpoint and miss, e.g., two Apennine panels. Best!
Heikki