Proxima in a 1972 painting by the great David Hardy.

I calculated Prox b as "Hercolubus" & Prox c as "Orphalese" previously; now i can present these wonderful paintings to go with them. There is quite a list of stories about this star already, & as i said on Centauri Dreams comments, i prefer The City in the Middle of the Night--which is not star-specific-- to Baxter's Proxima, if it comes to that.

When i think of these places, i think of my sepia photos.

Music: "dirge-wrixle" (Ottoman Classical Music).

If it's a holiday, it's Halloween; & if it's a language, maybe Old Church Slavonic. If it's a time, the high Victorian era. Mercian Hymns. Royston's Lycophron. Esoteric gambits. Ghost stories. Blank dróttkvaett. This dark green poncho/burnoose. Mothra.

"Once she had understood the language of birds, now no longer, it took all her time to understand her own language, and that of those who attempted communication. Once there had been the subterranean language with the underground forces. If speech at all then it was the spaces between words, and the echoes the words left, or what might be really meant under the surface." --Ann Quin, The Unmapped Country, 2018

Same subject & artist, from 1989.

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