Slowly the lamp is covered by moths until it is eclipsed and no longer attracts moths.

A mothy crust: a testimonial.

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Our world has one sun and one moon, roughly the same size in our sky, a German sky.

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We say “sun and moon” as if they were antitheses, like something and nothing, or subject and object, or good and evil.

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If the unknown were as resistant to esteem as it is to knowledge, this world would be very different. For one thing, there would be no religion. After all, there would be no poetry – but the loss of poetry goes unnoticed.