“Artemis” : Greek goddess of the Moon; protector of young women; twin sister of Apollo.   Ray Bradbury called it “The Loneliness.” The way everything shrinks down when you leave the Earth, yourself most of all, body and soul. Watching the planet dwindle, that impossible oasis of light in a vast universe of darkness. The surrounding dark matter like so much invisible pack ice. The globe contracting if not to a point then to something little larger than a small coin, easily obs

A Metaphor Equation Micro-blog The first Briton in space, Helen Sharman. In Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterly 1972 film adaptation of Stanislaw...

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