Sappho I:
Look up. A hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Unconcerned with me, that confidence of stars, light offerings, two thousand years old. If they are anything to me they are jewels for my shroud. I cannot know them. I cannot even know myself. Pascal’s terror is mine: ‘Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie.’
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