Dialogue on the Threshold

Schwellendialog

26 February 2020

The Moons of Saturn

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or The Whale (1851), 
Chapter 107, The Carpenter



Titan, Saturn VI. Katabasis.
Huygens probe, 14 January 2005

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