Subject: Re: Leto, You, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Date: Thurs, 18 June 199- 02.04:42 +0100
From: kim.mcquy<hswu@lattice.onlyconnect.com>
To: Hortense Fernly<h.fernly@natmus.ac.alb>
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Dear Hetty - you've seen how Leto lives on *after* she's stoned to death you've read the strips that show her scrabbling to survive after that nasty little episode think of it this way think of her and the babies as stars whose light is reaching us only now across time you accept when you hear a thunderclap that the moment when the bolt of lightning fell happened a few moments before in class I get the children to count between the flash and the rumble and reckon it's about a mile away a second if they're scared imagining the distance takes their mind off it when you look at the distant stars Andromeda is the most faraway that you can see with the naked eye but you can't in Enoch too yellow at night so I look at the sky on the web www.hubble.org when you're looking into space you're looking into time what you see happened a long while ago its called lookback time that's like Leto and her two babies they happened a long time ago but their presence in the light is coming nearer all the time the actual speed is one foot a billionth of a second not too difficult to remember it was there and now it's reached us through the bundle in the tomb

when light moves her presence through the ether or the interstellar medium as they now call whatever it is out there between the stars she picks up dust and smears and scars and that's what we call history

shes getting nearer all the time but we don't know when we'll see her in the here and now when in time present the light and space become one and so we start again - History Starts With Us!

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