I set out on my daily walk this afternoon, and two blocks down from my apartment I happened to look up, and saw this:
Take away the buildings in the photo, and it's almost the exact image of Halley's Comet in a dream I once had as a young child. In the dream it glowed with extravagant glamour as it rounded the Sun, and when I woke up I tried to reproduce the image in crayon on paper, but try as I might, I could not recapture the splendor of the dream.
The cloud moved with fair speed even as I stood watching, and soon enough I was rewarded with this unforgettable sight:
I suppose you could say this cloud afforded me one more instance of a "dreamlike" image. Except that this time, it's literally true.
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