On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, David Goldfarb wrote:
>
>I've lived in Oakland/Berkeley all my life, and I've noticed this
>many times. Do people really not? I suppose there are just a lot of
>people who rarely look up; I've heard that there are those who
>haven't even noticed that the moon sometimes appears in the daytime
>sky.
>
"I left Earth seven years ago. In that time, do you know the
most interesting thing I've learned about downsiders?"
It was so completely out of line out of anything I'd been
expecting to hear from him that it threw me completely out of
position. I stared at him, unsnapped the guard on my holster --
heard the sound of holsters popping all around me -- and said,
finally, very gently, "No. What is the most interesting thing
about downsiders?"
"Downsiders," said the clown, "never look up."
-- From "The Last Dancer", by Daniel Keys Moran