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A Physics
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A Physics When you get down to it, Earth has our own great ranges of feeling—Rocky, Smoky, Blue— and a heart that can melt stones. The still pools fill with sky, as if aloof, and we have eyes for all of this—and more, for Earth's reminding moon. We too are ruled by such attractions—spun and swaddled, rocked and lent a light. We run our clocks on wheels, our trains on time. But all the while we want to love each other endlessly—not only for a hundred years, not only six feet up and down. We want the suns and moons of silver in ourselves, not only counted coins in a cup. The whole idea of love was not to fall. And neither was the whole idea of God. We put him well above ourselves, because we meant, in time, to measure up. 175 ...