[meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:55:36 +0100
Message-ID: <002201c7362f$cf756a90$0200a8c0_at_ibmtp23>

Here I've got something which could be a good mantra for all of us who will
be lucky enough to see our January comet this evening.
Friedrich H?lderlin (1770-1843), a more than legitimate resident of
Parnassus, wrote - as I don't have an official English translation
here, please excuse my private try - the original is much better.

"M?cht' ich ein Komet seyn? Ich glaube. Denn sie haben die Schnelligkeit der
V?gel; sie bl?hen an Feuer, und sind wie Kinder an Reinheit."

"Do I want to be a comet? I believe so. Because they own the velocity of
birds; they're blossoming with fire and are like children in innocence."

(quoted from the poem 'In lieblicher Bl?ue'/'In lovely blueness'; by the
way: great American painter Sam Francis once dedicated a real masterwork to
this poem - a good example for the r e a l globalization ...)

Matthias Baermann





----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
To: "'Matthias B?rmann'" <majbaermann at web.de>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:15 PM
Subject: AW: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?


"wohl aber merkte ich, da? die Leute ver?ndert waren, zu fl?stern begannen,
wenn ich in die N?he kam und mich mitleidig ansahen. Die bulgarischen
M?dchen fl?sterten nicht, sie sagten es alles heraus und von ihnen erfuhr
ich, auf ihre derbe Art, da? das Ende der Welt gekommen sei. Es war der
allgemeine Glaube in der Stadt und er mu? eine Weile vorgeherrscht haben, da
es sich mir, ohne da? ich mich selbst vor etwas Bestimmten f?rchtete, so
tief einpr?gte." ...Eines Nachts hie? es, jetzt sei der Komet da und jetzt
werde er auf die Erde fallen. Ich wurde nicht schlafen geschickt, ich h?rte
jemand sagen, das h?tte jetzt keinen Sinn, die Kinder sollten auch in den
Garten kommen."

Wer?

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Matthias
B?rmann
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 22:51
An: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?



Quiz (Svend Bugl out of contest):

A famous German author of 20th century was so lucky to see Halley twice, in
full consciousness, and wrote a book about this experience.

Who was it (don't google, have a look around in your private libraries :-)

Matthias Baermann


----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re-2: January Comet?


> Gary disappointedly comments:
>
> Clouds to the west the last two nights. I got
> some good sunset pics, but no comet :( Gary
>
> Now, drum roll, ... my comment:
>
> Clouds here to the west, east, north and south the last two nights :-(
> Thomas Tuchan must have been extremely lucky ... his home town Ulm
> is only about 200 km from where I live. Sincere congrats, Thomas!
>
> Well, you can't have it all - I saw Halley, I saw Hale-Bopp, I saw
> Hyakutake, ... plus some telescopic comets, so I shouldn't complain!
>
> Cometary Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
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