How to define Vega? The greatest of scholars have debated the matter for substantially more than two thousand years. Vega has been an empire builder, a spaceship named the Octogenarian Sparrow, a particularly egregious lapse in the space-time continuum; but before everything, a lowercase letter "e" on the one hundred and fourteenth page of an omnibus first edition of the complete works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. An inauspicious beginning, to be sure, but from there fortunes could only rise. A decade later, Vega could be seen as the hypen on the cover of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary; a year later, a full sentence on the third page of a work of Austen (the identity of which is currently another heated subject of dispute). These astronomical bounds in status have defied the imaginations of generations of intellectuals, and have never been rivaled since.
To continue your investigation of Vega, place your finger in the marked tab and turn to page 3945.b, section 6, column ii.
—according to Emera
A few things I like...
drawing ◦ reading books ◦ story-rich video games ◦ Kentucky Route Zero ◦ ball-jointed dolls ◦ sencha and genmaicha ◦ candles ◦ hiking in the country ◦ Ghost in the Shell ◦ Samurai Champloo ◦ Cowboy Bebop ◦ Lone Wolf and Cub manga ◦ low fantasy novels ◦ books by Leif Enger ◦ and Patricia McKillip ◦ and Ursula K. Le Guin ◦ The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe ◦ black hair ◦ large hands ◦ lean bodies ◦ autumn and winter ◦ central Asian steppe cultures and history ◦ history podcasts ◦ standing on the beach in the tide ◦ world-building my own fantastical worlds ◦ the Chinese language ◦ a clear night sky ◦ the petrichor smell ◦ trains ◦ travelling by rail ◦ ravens ◦ raptors ◦ and most birds, really ◦ climbing rocks ◦ Vangelis ◦ The Necks ◦ videogame music ◦ plainchant ◦ jazz music ◦ especially a good jazz concert ◦ EDM, downtempo, dark ambient ◦ music without words ◦ PBS 106.7fm ◦ driving on a city freeway at night ◦ the sound of rain while in bed ◦ mathematics ◦ tall ships ◦ a rugged coastline ◦ canyons ◦ and any rocky, mountainous places ◦ high-collared coats ◦ a pair of good boots ◦ skillful calligraphy ◦ pine cones ◦ sunlight upon dark clouds
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