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'"We can then pronounce," he'd said, "that if our gauges cease to resolve the Milky Way into stars, it is not because its nature is doubtful, but because it is fathomless."'

'William imitates both the male and female sounds with great success, cupping his hands and blowing through the aperture between them. The owls always answer him. "You make them fall in love with you," Lina says. "I make them fall in love with each other," William says.'

'She is grateful for this joy, the joy of being amazed, this transformation of her gaze from admiration—for anyone can see the stars are beautiful—to astonishment. This is William's greatest gift to her, she thinks, the gift of awe...Somehow, her awe makes what is quotidian or tedious—the tiring business of making meals or beds, or washing clothes—almost holy.'

'Wind and rain blow in visible gusts like giant hourglasses bending across the meadows by the river.' Not sure what this is even meant to evoke...