How is it to be understood? How can one explain it? We all know that many important situations and issues occupy the minds of those who operate the print media of Rockingham County. But, really! Incredulous! Embarrassing! Shameful! And to quote every actor who has portrayed, on stage, King Mongut, in that well-loved and long-running stage adaptation of Margaret Landon’s, Anna and the King of Siam c.1944: “…most unscientific.” This reader believes that the absence of print notices informing news readers in this county about the lunar eclipse was… most unscientific, indeed, and a lost opportunity to report an event that would cause some groovy anticipation in the minds of the regular, loyal readers.
At those times when King Mongut used that exclamation, “most unscientific,” he talked of many different and interesting subjects. He also said that he thought Moses must have been a fool (just a little added trivia) and most unscientific.
I wonder if King Mongut would have labeled a total eclipse of the moon, scientific? I also wonder where were the notices in the Reidsville Review and The Reidsville Free Press that could have told us to go outside last night and look up. The fact that they didn’t is, to me, incredulous, appalling, embarrassing, etc. A LUNAR ECLIPSE! One of those events that occurs independently of man’s touch or tweaking. His hands are completely off. He can capture the lovely and alluring event with his technology. A likeness? Semblance? In real time? But he cannot alter the celestial phenomenon one nano-bit, not one. Knowing that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Okay, then. There are many accounts of the lunar eclipse along with some mind-blowing photographs for our viewing pleasure on other news websites. Maybe next time, Reidsville.
Vicki Herndon
