Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The Travelogue of an Astronomer
Hameed vividly describes how the island was formed, the dimensions of the island, its dominance in the Atlantic Ocean, and even its idealistic surroundings that are perfect for star gazing. He describes the island in such detail to amaze the readers who are mainly attracted to the island because of its history and its vastness. However, he does not give much detail about what he observes through the telescope because there is so much to see, space reaches on for infintity; whereas, the island of La Palma is only about 706 km squared in area. Hameed says that it only took him two to make his trip to the Canary Islands, but the light photons that hit his telescope started their journey 17 million years ago. His description of the island and the time it took to reach the island were simply given to shock the readers when they found out the vastness of space and the fact that it goes on for eternity.
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Even though this story was supposed to be about discriptive writing, i do have to say that your post was just as informative as that 3 page story and you did it in less then a paragraph!
I think that you did a wonderful job of describing what you thought about the story. I think everything you said made total sense, and I agree completely with the things you said about it. Hameed did a really great job of describing the settings of the island.
You basically said what I said, but you worded it ten times better. Thats what I was getting at: It was getting the reader in that mindset about the here and now, and then blowing the readers mind away with the vastness and intensity of space and time.
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