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Re: Missing the sky

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Thursday, March 7, 2002, 4:48
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:30:42 -0500, Muke Tever
<alrivera@...> wrote:

>Rami can't have a word for "sky". >The sky is not a thing... it is not a direction, really... I don't think it >can be a verb... It's just an abstract concept, an idea. > >I don't even really know how to translate it. >What *is* the sky, in concrete terms?
My first thought was "atmosphere". But then, that doesn't work on the moon. (Doesn't the moon have a sky?) Since it's a visual feature, maybe an artistic term like "background" would be a better metaphor. The sky, in that view, would be the ultimate background.