Islanded In A Stream of Stars

From Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House

"For a moment
of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of starsβ€” pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

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  1. thanks for this. i’ve since checked out the book from my local library and i’m going to give it a go. it’s referenced in the title of an upcoming battlestar galactica episode, and that combined with your short little post was enough to convince me to grab it.
    i find the book so far compelling, although i do need to read certain passages several times–and out loud, occasionally–to grasp them.

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  2. @Crimsonsilk – Uhuh, it’s arresting πŸ™‚
    @ryan – I actually first spotted it in a quote about that very BSG episode and followed a trail to the book πŸ™‚

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