“Of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from
“Of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity. “Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vast?” James Joyce, Ulysses -- source link
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