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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Plato and Copernicus

Plato and Copernicus

fiction
edward w pritchard

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Every one heard a large crash when Copernicus dethroned Plato's cosmology. I heard the sorrowful twinkling of the crashing of the platonic forms as they gently dissolved into oblivion.

My idealized woman had never existed, a figment of my imagination with no basis in reality. With a moan my ideal re-emerged as an earthbound material pieces of skin and bone incapable of  celestial duration.

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