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...exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments for the journey...
...places, Piercy's writing style is rich with detail and sharp pithy phrases. She describes the beach: "they sat on the top of the outermost dune watching the waves slide in below, sinuous, cracking the whip of their white backs over the hidden sandbars." Dinah rebels against the routines of her first, marriage, screaming, "'I don't see what liking to fuck you has to do with being confused with a laundry service!'" Or Susan's feelings for Willie: "Susan could feel her desire for him seeping back like sweet red wine, like mulled wine spicy and hot and tipsy...
...early yesterday evening, the first thunderstorms and showers in the outermost spiral bands of the storm had reached southeast Texas, forecasters said...
...make sure that nothing bad happens. They've checked the backgrounds of all the people who live within 500 yards of the Olympic Village. Finally, there are four rings of security boats off the coast to make sure that nothing bad comes in from the ocean. I think the outermost ring is the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet...
...electrons that it does contain are not bound as tightly to it as those in the inner shells. Just as the sun's gravitational pull is weaker on distant Pluto than on nearby Mercury, the hold of an atomic nucleus is also weaker on electrons in the outermost layers...