NP, Misc. "'Across the sky"
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 13:28:37 CDT 2010
La mer, mother of all life. Also, the unconscious in Jung and others.
But I think the ice in comets is of another variety, isn't it?
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> What a line is "Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky"
> It's actually scientifically accurate. Ice crystals. How the hell? And isn't
> there something essentially feminine about water, at least mythically?
> On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> "Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
>> Comets, importing change of times and states,
>> Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,"
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>> Comets portended misfortune, says the footnote.
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>> Opening of Henry 6, part 1, the Duke of Bedford at the funeral
>> of Henry 5...
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