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"of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901:" (U17.1050) |
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A titbit (1890) from Sir Robert Ball. |
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"of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures" (U17.1052) |
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"the annular cinctures of Saturn:" (U17.1107) |
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"the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns:" (U17.1108) |
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"the annual recurrence of meteoric showers about the period of the feast of S. Lawrence" (U17.1115)
S. Lawrence is a 3c archdeacon of Rome, born at Huesca (Spain). He was the keeper of the treasures of the church in a time when Christianity was outlawed. On 6 August 258, by decree of Emperor Valerian, Pope Sixtus II and six deacons were beheaded, leaving Lawrence as the ranking Church official in Rome. After the death of Sixtus, the prefect of Rome demanded that Lawrence turn over the riches of the Church. Lawrence asked for three days to gather together the wealth, then distributed as much Church property to the poor as possible. He then presented himself to the prefect of Rome accompanied by a multitude of Rome's poor and crippled, declaring that these were the true treasures of the Church. This act of defiance led directly to his martyrdom. Tradition holds that he was grilled to death, August 10th 258, hence his symbol the gridiron. He is buried in the cemetery of Saint Cyriaca on the road to Tivoli, Italy. |
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"(martyr, 10 August):" (U11.1116)
The Perseid shower of meteors, which occurs annually between August 8-14, was known in the middle ages as the “burning (or fiery) tears of St Lawrence”. |
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"the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in her arms:" (U17.1117) |
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"the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar," (U17.1132) |
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"His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible error?
That it was not a heaventree, not a heavengrot, not a heavenbeast, not a heavenman. That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence." (U17.1137) |
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"What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?" (U17.1157) |
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"Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations:" (U17.1159) |
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"her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection:" (U17.1160) |
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"her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning:" (U17.1161) |
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the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: " (U1.1162) |