continued from July 3
"I say high, you say low,
you say why,
and I say I don't know.
Oh, no.
You say goodbye
and I say hello."
— Hello Goodbye *
Thanks to NBC Nightly News tonight for a story on the following:
Manhattanhenge is an evening when "the Sun sets in exact alignment with the Manhattan grid, fully illuminating every single cross-street…."
Full Sun on grid:
Friday, July 11–
8:24 PM EDT
Related material from the late
Tom Disch on St. Sarah's Day:
| Saturday, May 24th, 2008 9:15 pm
What I Can See from Here
I face east toward the western wall Of a tall many-windowed building Some distance off. I don't see the sunset Directly, only as it is reflected From the facade of that building. Those familiar with Manhattan know How the evening sun appears to slide Into the slot of any east/west street, And so its beams are channeled Along those canyon streets to strike Large objects like that wall And scrawl their anti-shadows there, A Tau of twilight luminescence At close of day. I've seen this For some forty years and only tonight Did I realize what I had been looking at: The way god tries to say good-bye. |
* Walter Everett, in The Beatles as Musicians , has a note on the song "Hello Goodbye"–
"189. The extra-long coda… was referred to as the 'Maori finale' from the start…."
(Updated Feb. 27, 2013, to replace an incorrect reference in the footnote
to a book by Stanley Cavell instead of the correct book, by Walter Everett.)