"One pale as yonder wan and horned moon,
With lips of lurid blue,
The other glowing like the vital morn
When throned on ocean's wave
It breathes over the world:
Yet both so passing strange and beautiful!"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Daemon of the World," 1816
Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture
By Yi-Fu Tuan
Kodansha America, 1995, 288 pages, Index, Bibliography
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