Immediately after the paragraph in which the Milky Way had cascaded:
"...hundreds of enormous fireflies...danced, flickered, blinked and dazzled..." (p. 59)
- above a gleaming lawn. Then, three other senses were addressed:
"The air was mild but rich with the scent of the blooms. An odor of harsher native growth, breeze-born from as far as the rank Bog, only heightened that sweetness. The sighing among leaves blended into the hush-hush-hush of the surf." (ibid.)
The characters see stars and fireflies, feel a mild breeze, smell flowers and the bog and hear leaves and surf.
The visible constellations and stars include the Big Dipper, the Southern Cross and Alpha Centauri. Byron tells Julia that Alpha Centauri is the closest other star. Every sf reader knows that Alpha Centauri is close but is Proxima Centauri closer? I had to google to remember the facts which are complicated.
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Kaor, Paul!
Instead of Alpha Centauri (4.37 light years from Sol) and Barnard's Star (about six light years) being those distances from Earth, I wish either or both had only been about two light years from us. I THINK we could just barely make it to one of those stars now even at our current level of technology if that had been the case.
Ad astra! Sean
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