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I saw a scene unimaginable
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so complex, so incredible
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that I stood electrified and stunned.
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No friend or acquaintance to consult
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no service, no helpdesk to advise.
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no Muse to help.
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To describe the spectacle:
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I appeal to a higher authority.
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Apollo, the classic one, formerly named The Oblique
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or the God of The Slanting Light
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- his favorite number Seven-
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re-appeared in the 20th Century as Apollo Eleven. |
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Not only deity, not only machine, but both.
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A blended form, two components but ONE in essence!
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Like the ancient Apollo an expert Oblique Operator too.
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with my own eyes I saw Him thrust Himself
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high into the sky, perpendicular as a guided missile
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and adroitly maneuver
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one of his modules
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into an oblique angle
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and execute a soft landing
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on the ravaged surface of the moon?
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Apollo 11, I need your help!
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Jump out of the light
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into the blue, just like Yves Klein:
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pluck Signs from the raw amorphous data
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that translate into images
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impressions evoking the scene
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images that interface
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between the viewer and the object viewed.
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Make a detour!
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Instead of gazing at the scene itself, indirectly scrutinize
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and then describe the Signs as they impress, get impressed
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and signify. |
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So you in turn can pass it on.
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And so I tried.....
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Fait divers: Sun god crashing into the moon.
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An enormous impact crater named "Apollo" is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
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