Spectral Quotes

“[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.”
― Naipaul V.S.

“Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.”
― Gregory Maguire, After Alice

“It was common to be exposed to smashed mercury filled spectral calibration lamps in astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“It felt like whatever the issue was, it was being repeated by spectral beings who were taking sides.”
― Kiran Manral, Missing, Presumed Dead

“I had taken an obsolete astronomical spectral gas tube home from the observatory for use as an ornament. Many years later I broke the specialized gas tube in the home. In the days afterwards I started experiencing sickness that I had been reporting to my doctor during working at the high altitude observatory. My notes state: During the last few days my bones are starting to ache again and nerves are twitching in my body and face like they were when I worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)...headaches...insomnia...zoning out...tired...forgetful...confusion. 5 days earlier I had been atop Kitt Peak mountain and 4 days later the sheriff disconnected my electricity.”
― Steven Magee

“I consider myself fortunate that I no longer live in the home where I broke a mercury filled astronomical spectral lamp.”
― Steven Magee

“The entire astronomical observatory team were installing a mercury argon spectral lamp (HgAr) during a training session when one of the workers smashed the mercury filled spectral lamp. We continued the training session with a new mercury spectral lamp from stock. A week later I was at the doctors complaining of a variety of health conditions that were classic mercury poisoning.”
― Steven Magee

“In high altitude astronomy, we would throw broken mercury spectral lamps into the closest trash can.”
― steven magee

“Had I been educated by my employers as to how hazardous mercury filled spectral lamps were, I would never have taken an obsolete mercury filled spectral lamp home.”
― Steven Magee

“We were not told by the management teams to ventilate the area and to leave the area after breaking astronomical spectral lamps.”
― Steven Magee