Re: Missing the sky
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 7, 2002, 4:48 |
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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.
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>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.