Twilight of Briareus
Richard Cowper, John Middleton Murry Jr.
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
3.75
· 4 ratings · 208 pages · Published: 26 Mar 1974
In the novel, a nearby supernova blows in the constellation Briareus. Here’s the protagonist, a teacher in the local school, viewing it: "It was as if a hundred filmy scarves of pastel gauze had been suspended from the zenith to curtain off the whole of the northern sky; frail webs of pendant iridescence—pink & blue & green & yellow—which seemed to wave in slow motion like ghostly battle banners. The sight simply beggared description; it was unearthly. Next day I set it as a subject for a poem and one of the bright specks in the third form came up with—“slow waving fronds of winter weed. In rainbow rippling tropic seas”— which caught a faint fragrance of the magic but that’s about all."
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