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Asteroseismic analysis suggests the age of 70 Oph as 6.2 ± 1.0 Gyr. (2008 pdf)

"Of James Joyce (b. 2 February 1882). Javier Marías reports in _Written Lives_ (2006), translated by Margaret Jull Costa, how Joyce once said he 'longed to copulate with a soul.'

And of the eventual _Finnegans Wake_ (1939), Samuel Beckett writes in _Our Exagmination Round His Factification forIncamination of 'Work in Progress'_ (1929):

'You cannot complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read . . . It is to be looked at and listened to. His writing is not about something. _It is that something itself_.' " —@lattaj.bsky.social

"Consequently See wrote an ill-considered letter to the Astronomical Journal that led to his life-long disbarment as a contributor. This affair was a major factor in the destruction of See's life—he later suffered a nervous breakdown, and his eventual fate was to remain trapped until his death in the ruins of his career." (pdf) —Destroyed by a ghost planet.

Punxsutawney Phil

unhappily sewn tux
waxen plushy input

tuneup whips a lynx

Full moon rainbow combined with Northern Lights.