Andreas to Lawrence: See that big thing in the
sky? Yeah, that moon thing. Look at the middle, on
the right side. See those two big dark spots? The
Sea of Serenity. The Sea of Tranquility. Aren't
you totally disgusted?
Andreas is of course referring to a site of
massive calamity and disaster. After howling
violence and explosions, the smooth floors of the
Sea of Tranquility and Serenity are now covered by
a thin layer of powdered rock. The surrounding
mountainous highlands of the moon have bouldered
terrain and are strewn with rocky rubble. As a
record of the devastatingly violent history of the
moon, those highlands are densely scarred by
thousands of tortured craters that make a modern
battlefield look tranquil.
The lunar rocks Andreas watches through his
telescope have shifted position by meteorite
impact or seismic activity (moonquakes)over the
silent, cold, and inhosptable stretches of years.
Now in Andreas' time seismic activity on the moon
is very low, corroborating the image of the moon
as an essentially static, nonevolving world.
Pure death, Andreas, pure silent, skeletal,
indifferent, unchanging death. Enjoy!
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