For help from the spinning earth, you need a stick
driven into the ground. Turning, the earth
makes the Sun
appear to rise and cross the sky—and set
in the West.
As the Sun seems to change
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True North/1: The Lover Wishes to Be of Unending
secret service to the beloved. When the beloved is God, this is hard; except for the atheist. A magnetic compass, even without interference from nearby masses of iron—the steel frame […]
True North/3: It’s Hard
The noontime shadow changes length very slowly. The noontime shadow is only one length: its length at noon. The noontime shadow—my clock is usually off anyway; it’s hard. It mean […]
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