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Nature 447, 779 (14 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/447779a; Published online 13 June 2007
Science in culture: The obscure clarity of starlight
Pete Jeffs1
"Your age and my age and the age of the world cannot be measured in years," wrote Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann in her poem Das Spiel ist aus (The game is up). It is the sheer size of Anselm Kiefer's Sternenfall (Falling stars) installation in the restored Grand Palais in Paris that projects the visitor into the immeasurable.
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