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The Transit of Venus.(Poem)
THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Professor Penny has set the sun against cement block walls of metallurgical sciences--grey with age. Punting with cardboard and pin-hole paraphernalia orchestrated in the lunch break he now conducts the black love beetle of Venus across the huge solar disc of his projection. A few staff and students, tempted from ...
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