A quote from the novel on which George Clooney's new Netflix film,
"The Midnight Sky," is based —
"Yet here he was, seventy-eight years old …
and, having come to the terminus of his life’s work,
all he could do was stare into the bleak face of
his own ignorance."
— Brooks-Dalton, Lily. Good Morning, Midnight (p. 5).
Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Related material —
For more ignorance, see part of the current New Yorker home page —
Click image for the magazine's animated gif .
— and other recent posts tagged "Sixteenth."
* The "Ice Stone" is in the New Year's Eve post tagged "Sixteenth."
Space fans may think of that tag as representing the empty space
(a sort of black hole ) in the classic "15 Puzzle."