“…a vision that had seized him as he walked one evening in his youth with two friends at sunset. As he later described it, the “air turned to blood” and the “faces of my comrades became a garish yellow-white.” Vibrating in his ears he heard “a huge endless scream course through nature.” "
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The sunset was real according to meteorological scientists. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200405/backpage.cfm
“…a vision that had seized him as he walked one evening in his youth with two friends at sunset. As he later described it, the “air turned to blood” and the “faces of my comrades became a garish yellow-white.” Vibrating in his ears he heard “a huge endless scream course through nature.” "
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The sunset was real according to meteorological scientists. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200405/backpage.cfm