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...latest, refined theory of these phenomena. The round earth lies, in Dr. Hulburt's theory, within an egg-shaped ion cloud of its own making. This cloud is the out-spraying of the earth's spherical atmosphere which hugs the earth like a skin about 100 miles thick. Neutral atoms and molecules at the outer rim of the atmosphere dart further away from the earth into space. Sunlight ionizes them, creating an extremely tenuous cloud of ions and electrons. These radiate a faint light of their own, comparable to the light of the sun's corona. Zodiacal...
...light did not exert pressure this ion and electron cloud would be spherical in form. But because light does press, sunlight forces the cloud into its egglike shape. The butt side is towards the sun. It is in that direction 30,000 miles thick and appears as the Zodiacal light. From the opposite side of the earth where the cloud's resistance to sunlight pressure is less it is squeezed a million miles or more from earth into a thin taper. That is where the Gegenschein glows. Through that taper the earth's atmosphere very, very slowly escapes...
Body and hood to be of half-inch thick navy steel plate, designed to shed bullets...
...Story. The three "tales" in this little book are called: The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump, The Ondt and the Gracehoper. So far, only Parts I and II of Work in Progress have been printed: in transition, experimentalist quarterly published in Paris. Say those who profess to understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia...
Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...