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the shadow of the earth falls across the bright face of the full moon and suddenly the terrible geometry of my tiny existence is clear and the sky is no longer a ceiling lit by points of light but obviously a limitless expanse of nothingness compared to which even the earth and moon are as small as atoms and where does that leave me, a tiny instance of 'human' among billions of class:'human', utterly unimportant even when considered as a teeming whole? nowhere.