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"He was a 'sinister magician'; a kind of fallen Janus to the kindly, avuncular trickeries of the magister Melies (his natural forebear)."

“Fragmentary Stars

So wide the wells of darkness sink,
These having their own light, that are lost with the light,
Appear immersed in mournfulness over the night,
Like things that in sleep will come to the mind’s brink:
The bright Aldebaran, and seven that hover,
Seven wild and pale, clouding their brightness over,
And the flame that fell with summer, and the rose of stars returning,
Like tears piercing the sky;
Glittering without cause, for the piece of a legend,
Wept, I know not why.
O lovely and forgotten,
Gathered only of sleep,
All night upon the lids set burning,
Shaken from the lids at morning.”

—Léonie Adams

"GJ 523b is best described as a mega-Earth: a planet with a sub-Neptune-sized radius (Rp = 2.55R⊕), a high bulk density, and little or no significant H/He envelope despite lying above the radius gap." (@ 88LY)

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