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Nature 409, 457 (25 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35054146
The suspense of strangeness
Maurice Riordan1
There is a line about moonlight by Sylvia Plath that I find haunting: "This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary." My ear is arrested by the rhythm — by the way the line runs quickly into the strong stress on "mind", which then collides immediately with the stress on "cold" before the line spins off into space.
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