Nicholas Christopher

A Novel

A Trip to the Stars

sage

“You say you and he only had so little time together as lovers. Whenever I come here, I'm reminded of a story I heard when I visited India. Long before there were telescopes, Hindu cosmographers concluded that the universe was composed of billions of galaxies. They defined the life cycle of a galaxy as an eon. Asked the length of an eon, they replied: Imagine a mountain of solid rock, bigger than the Himalayas, which a man brushes with a piece of silk once every century; the time it would take him to wear away the entire mountain is an eon. When you consider time in that light, days, years, centuries begin to blur, don't you think? How you fill any one day -while emptying it of distractions-is all that matters. It sounds as if you filled your few days to the brim. Also, Mala,” he smiled, “I do believe that there are stars which fall to earth. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to be around when they do.”

“I’ve lost things too. But, as you know, in another way those become the very things that never leave you.”

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