On Rendezvous, three moons are up and one is:
"...almost full and hurtling between the stars so that [Peregrine Thorkild Sean] could see it moving." (p. 18)
Thus, Sean has three shadows and one of them moves. Also above him:
"Overhead were the stars, constellations unknown to the home of humanity. The Milky Way was still there, a bridge of light, and he could see the cold brilliance of Spica and Canopus, but most of heaven was strange." (ibid.)
We have already found the Milky Way described as a "...ghostly bridge of stars..." later in The Peregrine. See here.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I was reminded of the hurtling moons of Mars that Burroughs mentions so often in his Barsoom stories! And it would be interesting to be on a planet which has a moon moving fast enough for that to be visibly seen. Well, we can do that on Earth as well if we are willing to sit still long enough watching Luna!
Ad astra! Sean
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