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To start this short post, two moments from last week’s totality, separated by three minutes:

3:23 pm, moments before totality. That’s my son running around.
3:26 pm, the sun’s disc just beginning to reemerge

And how does one prepare in the weeks before a total eclipse of the sun? So glad you asked.

With a tennis ball, and any other spheres lying around the house.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe” (John Milton, “L’Allegro”)

I now wonder, orbits and dance, what’s the difference?

My son is seen pondering the globes a couple of times, and you can see the actual full moon shining through the windows one night.

The big black book is “The History of the Hobbit,” by John D. Rateliff.

This post is already bloated shamelessly with alliterations, especially of the letter “T”, so I won’t drag in the good name of Tolkien.

Except in the tags.

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