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ck replies to Jansy re Brocken Spectre
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Now, I'm not only lost in the Jungle but begining to become dellirious
since I never climbed anything higher than Algonkin-kind mountains and I
think I saw a "Brocken Spectre" more than once. Do people need to climb up
high mountains and even travel to Germany to experience this optical
illusion? Doesn't it, to arise, depend simply on setting/or/rising sun and
mist with, perhaps, a view from a bridge or a slope?
from Carolyn to Jansy:
You are surely right. Coleridge didn't know that he only needed to wait for
the right atmosphere on, as you say, a bridge or a slope. But perhaps he
wanted to go to Germany for the romantic experience?
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