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Tasha: I usually drove up the mountain on my way back ...
katie scott: the most looked at thing in history....
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The Relevancy of Moon Descriptions in a Personal Context
I usually drove up the mountain on my way back to Flagstaff in the middle of the night, and several times over the course of the year, being on the road that late meant that the moon was low in the sky, drifting right above the pines silhouetted on the horizon. It always seemed to be in some stage of "crescent," and reminded me strongly of the belly of a pregnant woman. The image stuck in my head, and I even worked it into a poem (a ghazal, if you're curious, which is one of my favorite forms, and come to think of it fits well with the spirit of the Encylopedia):
"God is in the symmetry of a starfish, in the moon hung / like the exposed belly of a woman heavy with child."
I wrote that line on April 3rd. On April 20th I found out I was pregnant.
Posted by: Tasha on Jan 13, 07 | 11:37 am
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the most looked at thing in history.
Posted by: katie scott on Dec 13, 06 | 10:00 am
fake moon
Sometimes the moon looks like it is hanging so dangerously low that I think if I reached out to grab it, I'd get sucked into outerspace. Other times I look at the moon and think it is so perfect-looking, that it must be fake, the government painted a backdrop to our lives, something to look at after we leave our boyfriend's house after a huge angsty fight, and realize, hey, I love that American moon. I say that because I've only seen the moon in America, and I think if I saw the moon in Ireland or somewhere zany, I'd just miss America and fighting with my boyfriend. I doubt the moon is real, but it's a pretty beautiful backdrop to life.
Posted by: jessica m. hunt on Dec 03, 06 | 1:49 pm
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The Chicago, Boston and San Francisco installments of the Lost and Found Project are now complete. 150 books were "intentionally left" around each city by a team of 20 friends/Book Hiding Specialists. They left them in places like the freezer at grocery store, shelf at Blockbuster, in the arms of a statue. Quite a few people wrote in to share their (often serendipitous) story of where & when they found the book. Filmmaker Steve Delahoyde documented the hiding of the first batch of Chicago books in this two-minute short film.
Did you find this book?
Notes from those who found a book
Watch the Lost and Found video
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All illustrations by Jeffrey Middleton