CLASSICAL CORNER

FORTEANA FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD COMPILED BY BARRY BALDWIN

297: TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE EARTH (Apologies to Bonnie Tyler for titular mangling) Fort has countless references to solar and other eclipses; see especially pages 822-5 for a semi-serious discussion of ecliptic predictions. Alas, no sign of the 2024 celestial wonder in these parts [Alberta]. Had to make do with witnessing it on the box, wincing at the absurd tag ‘Path of Totality’ applied to viewing spots across North America. I wrote up the 1999 one for the Morning Star (Thursday, 19 August), hence some self-plagiarism here. Shan’t be around for the next big one. As Lucy once observed to Linus in ‘Peanuts’, “You wouldn’t think it would be that hard to get a booking for an eclipse.” They’ve been making the headlines for a very long time, if Homer’s…

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