| Clock strikes twelve & moondrops burst Out at you from their hiding place Like acid and oil on a madman's face Reason tends to fly away Like lesser birds on the four winds Like silver scrapes in May Now the sands become a crust Most of you have gone away Come Susie dear, let's take a walk Just out there upon the beach I know you'll soon be married And you'll want to know where winds come from Well it's never said at all On the map that Carrie reads Behind the clock back there you know At the Four Winds Bar Four doors at the Four Winds Bar Two doors locked and windows barred One door's let to take you in The other one just mirrors it Hellish glare and inference The other one's a duplicate The Queenly flux, eternal light Or the light that never warms Yes the light that never, never warms It's the nexus of the crisis And the origin of storms Just the place to hopelessly Encounter time and then came me Call me Desdinova Eternal light These gravely digs of mine Will surely prove a sight And don't forget my dog Fixed and consequent Astronomy...a star excerpts from "Astronomy" by Blue Oyster Cult |
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Before The Beginning: Our Universe and Others by Martin Rees
Blind Watchers of the Sky by Rocky Kolb
The Book of the Cosmos edited by Dennis Danielson
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Carl Sagan by William Poundstone
Carl Sagan's Universe Elizabeth Bilson & Yervant Terzian (editors)
Contact by Carl Sagan
Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature by Eric J. Chaisson
Dark Visitor: The Coming Ice Age by Billy T
Fire on Earth by John & Mary Gribbin
Full Moon by Michael Light & Andrew Chaikin
Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography by Stillman Drake
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything by Paul Halpern
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth
Isaac Newton by Michael White
The Life and Death of Planet Earth by Peter Ward & Don Brownlee
The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time by Kitty Ferguson
Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun by Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff
The Origin of the Universe by John Barrow
The Roving Mind by Isaac Asimov
The Self-Writing Universe: For The Eternally Curious by Phil Scanlan
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Space Tourist's Handbook: Where to Go, What to See, And How to Prepare for the Ride of Your Life by Eric C. Anderson and Joshua Piven
A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space by Michael Friedlander
Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos by Mitchell Begelman
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Worlds Without End by John S. Lewis