{"id":4162,"date":"2021-12-11T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:23:33","slug":"tales-from-the-town-35-five-dreams-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/12\/11\/tales-from-the-town-35-five-dreams-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #35: Five Dreams Of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. Selene puts on her blindfold and dives into the pool. Floating there in the dark is as close again to space as she will ever get. It\u2019s so comforting she could cry.<\/p>\n

2. Someone once told Patricia that Venus was so hot the fillings would melt in your mouth. She wonders often how this would taste.<\/p>\n

3. Ted would blow up a planet if he could. He would blow up the stars. He\u2019d blow up the sun. But he would never harm the moon.<\/p>\n

4. Every summer Anna dreams of winter. Every winter she dreams of Pluto.<\/p>\n

5. The whale has no knowledge of space. It remembers oceans in the night. Galactic blooms of luminescent algae. Constellations of jellyfish pulsing in the dark like the neurons of some vast distributed brain. Volcanic vents glimpsed through crushing depths beyond the understanding of human hearts. All as beautiful as any comet\u2019s tails or rocket\u2019s trails carved across the impossible skies of our dreams.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written on May 21st, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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