To See the Earth Before the End of the World

A haze you can’t see by the sky

29 . . . A haze you can’t see by the sky bright sunny day has— only by distance. See light apotheosize its pale up horizon. the zenith’s white depth lit. But we have on and beyond our hands to the sides a day narrowing to the density of point and penciled vanishing the old “thin air” thickened dark accumulates aerial perspective. the view through the atmosphere is trickier on the slant as it sights through the bend of the earth. the curve collected layers deepen the heavens’ obscurant nothing of nothing there. we’ll trip over the mirage as easily a distance as over something here in this dark ...