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And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?
And he answered: You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable … Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless within you is aware of life’s timelessness, and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling in the bounds of the first moment which scattered the stars into space …—Excerpt from “The Prophet” (Gibran 1952)
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Penprase, B.E. (2017). Stars that Bind: Civilization, Calendars, and the Sky. In: The Power of Stars. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52597-6_5
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