Then the sun,
setting behind the houses,
pointed as though with a finger
at everything red in the street --
the red tops of the dragoons’ caps,
a red flag trailing on the ground,
and the red specks and threads
of blood on the
snow.
-- Boris Pasternak, Doctor
Zhivago
(1957; transl. Hayward & Harari)
(1957; transl. Hayward & Harari)
(This is just the latest of our aperçus of light.
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