418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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The Sun Isn't Something You Pass
We think of the sun as setting, but it's not really mo ing like that. Position is in the eye of the beholder, or the perspective of the speaker. Your position in the cosmos can be either fixed or moving. And so can everything else. As things wheel round you can either imagine that it's moving, or you are. The truth is you both are. We pass the setting or rather, he passed us.
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