{"id":4912,"date":"2023-11-09T05:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/albert-pinkham-ryders-enchanting-moonscapes-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T05:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:41:24","slug":"albert-pinkham-ryders-enchanting-moonscapes-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/albert-pinkham-ryders-enchanting-moonscapes-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pinkham Ryder\u2019s Enchanting Moonscapes \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThat best fact, the Moon,\u201d Margaret Fuller<\/a> called it. \u201cNo one ever gets tired of the moon,\u201d Walt Whitman wrote down the Atlantic coast from her, exulting:<\/p>\n

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Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, [the moon] commends herself to the matter-of-fact people by her usefulness, and makes her uselessness adored by poets, artists, and all lovers in all lands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Centerpiece of our most ancient cosmogonies<\/a>, our most groundbreaking revisions of the universe<\/a>, and our most haunting poems<\/a>, the Moon has accompanied Earth for billions of years. That we don\u2019t yet fully understand how it was formed \u2014 perhaps it was a wandering asteroid captured by Earth\u2019s gravity, perhaps the fission of the young Earth made it spin so fast that a piece of it broke off and came to orbit it, perhaps, and most probably, a giant collision tore it off from the planet \u2014 only adds to its mystery and its romance. <\/p>\n

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