http://andrewbrunelle.com/2006/08/28/what-is-humor/ A website devoted to philosophy, spirituality, humor, and everything in between Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:21:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://andrewbrunelle.com/2006/08/28/what-is-humor/#comment-2079 Annoying Dreamer Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:09:00 +0000 http://andrewbrunelle.com/2006/08/28/what-is-humor/#comment-2079 I saw tonight in the observatory, through Alvan Clark's telescope, the Dumb-Bell nebula in the Fox and Geese Constellation... I have rarely been so much gratified... Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime... What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair as you ascend; - that this is the road to the stars. Every fixture and instrument in the building, every nail and pin, has a direct reference to the Milky Way, the fixed stars, and the nebulae, and we leave ... the Americas and history at the door when we come in. I saw tonight in the observatory, through Alvan Clark’s telescope, the Dumb-Bell nebula in the Fox and Geese Constellation… I have rarely been so much gratified… Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime… What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair as you ascend; - that this is the road to the stars. Every fixture and instrument in the building, every nail and pin, has a direct reference to the Milky Way, the fixed stars, and the nebulae, and we leave … the Americas and history at the door when we come in.

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