Single Passages Continued Through 60 AD

A Venus day is longer than its year, It takes Venus 243.0187 Earth days to make one rotation, and 224.701 Earth days to orbit the sun. Because of the two different orbital rates of Venus and Earth, Venus must orbit the sun 2.6 times while Earth orbits 1.6 times before the two planets align. Conversely, a superior conjunction occurs when the three align but with Venus lying on the far side of the Sun. 62) In Isidore, one of the Cities of Memory, "the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third," and in Zirma one sees "a girl walking with a puma on a leash," and one leaves "Tamara without having discovered it." The Great Khan's labyrinthine empire becomes a metaphor of the universe itself. In 1952 he travelled to the Soviet Union and in 1959-60 to the United States with the benefit of a bursary from the Ford Foundation, saying in his American diary: "Very attractive women are rare. On the whole they are petite-bourgeois." (Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino, 2004, p. For further reading: The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom by Elio Attilio Baldi (2020); The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form, edited by Philip Terry (2019); The Mind of Italo Calvino: a Critical Exploration of His Thought and Writings by Dani Cavallaro (2010); Image, Eye and Art in Calvino, ed.

167-168) In 1967 Calvino moved to Paris, where he became acquainted with the activities of Oulipo (The Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), led by Raymond Queneau and François LeLionnais. Calvino moved with his family to Italy in his youth and spent his early years in San Remo, where his father was the curator of the botanical gardens. 615 Earth years ), moving slightly faster than Earth. However, a passage (or a passage pair) occurs 121.5 years apart because the Earth-Venus alignment drifts away from the location of the Venus node and Venus lies to far above (or below) the ecliptic for the Earth-to-Venus line of sight to hit the Sun's disc. The symmetrical s-shaped pattern eventually morphs into a looped pattern as the Earth-Venus alignment and subsequent retrograde drifts away from the node of Venus and Venus moves further above (or below) the ecliptic. To view the entire heavens please visit "The Sidereal Heavens: Under the Stars" The retrogrades of 2004 and 2012 occur in the second half of sidereal Taurus--in the "horns of the bull." El Nath is the north horn and Al Hecka is the south horn. A passage (technically called a transit) can only occur with the inner planets--Mercury and Venus--because they are the only two that can lie between the Earth and Sun during their orbits.

From that time onward the pattern drifted downward across the sun and we began to experience passage pairs, We will experience passage pairs until 3948 AD, when the passage pattern drifts enough such that the passages becomes singular again. Thus, while the synodic cycles and retrogrades of Venus drift westward, the entire 243-year cycle (and the location of the passages) drifts eastward about the same arc-distance as the 8-year synodic pentagonal series drifts westward (about 2°). A Singular Passage or a Passage Pair There are periods when there is only one Venus Passage occurring rather than two, This happens when the Earth-Venus alignment lies exactly on the Venus nodes. Thus, on Venus, the sun and stars rise in the west and set in the east. Unlike the Moon, which covers most of the Sun, Venus appears as a small dot crossing the face of the Sun. Although the Venus-Sun conjunction lies in sidereal Taurus, the theme of the 1.6 year Venus synodic cycle beginning on June 8, 2004 is defined by the stellar qualities looking from the Sun toward Venus, Earth, and Pluto (the sidereal heliocentric view), all residing in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Love charms a lot, and so do fair items for happy encounters.

Yet trespassers of love have to be guarded against. Love ensnares, and love-making can put people at ease. Adam, One Afternoon, and Other Stories (translated by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright, 1957); The Watcher & Other Stories (translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun, 1971); Difficult Loves (translated William Weaver, D.S. Smog (in Difficult Loves, translated William Weaver, D.S. A Plunge into Real Estate (in Difficult Loves, translated by William Weaver, D.S. Difficult Loves. Smog. A Plunge into Real Estate, 1983 (translated William Weaver, D.S. And remember: Sensible, all-round tenets often seem able to stand on their own legs, no matter what sort of speculation went into them first, and a tub manages to stand on its own bottom too. Unaware of each other, the two parts of the Viscount go on living their own lives. The times in red reveal the primary cycle. The times in yellow reveal the duration between the last transit of one pair and the first transit of the second pair. When Calvino left the Party he felt deeply distressed and said: "Having grown up in times of dictatorship, and being overtaken by total war when of military age, I still have the notion that to live in peace and freedom is a frail kind of good fortune that might be taken away from me in an instant." (The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh, San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986, p.