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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Dec 11, 2020, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.25834E840002EE9B700004CB638F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > As any readers on these groups probably know, I have been going   
   > from one lunar phase to another, making predictions that never   
   > come true.   
   >   
   > I liken this to Sysyphus rolling the rock up the hill only to have it   
   > roll down just before it reaches the top. The rock rolling up   
   > the hill is like the moon waxing from new to full, and the rock   
   > rolling down the hill is like the moon waning from full to new.   
   >   
   > My story may also be similar to the folktale of The Boy Who   
   > Cried Wolf, in Aesop’s Fables, where a boy keeps making   
   > false reports of a wolf, so that after a while the villagers   
   > ignore him, even though eventually the wolf does come.   
   > The wolf (since it howls at the moon) I think can be   
   > associated with full moon, whereas I associate Raven   
   > with new (dark) moon, which is approaching.   
   >   
   > Good night (3:21 a.m. here now),   
   > DRD   
      
   And this past (and it is still very close to full tonight)   
   moon was the Wolf Moon according to   
   timeanddate.com . And maybe this time   
   the Wolf has come.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And now the angry morning/Gives the early signs of warning/You must face   
   alone the plans you make/Decisions they will try to break" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)