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Lagrange---Pollux transmission delay:\\
Lagrange—Pollux transmission delay:\\
41 days, 3 hours, 1 minute
Lagrange---Castor transmission delay:\\
Lagrange—Castor transmission delay:\\
42 days, 2 hours, 31 minutes
Lagrange---Artemis transmission delay:\\
Lagrange—Artemis transmission delay:\\
43 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes
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And yet, as the Ode goes on to say, ``To forge is to end, and to own beginnings. To hone is to trade ends for perpetual perfection.'' That perfection, it says, is ``Perfecting singular arts to a cruel point.''
The Ode is just a poem, it is no holy text — what was it Emerson said? The poet nails a symbol to a sense that was true for a moment but soon becomes false, while the mystic mistakes the singular for the universal?\footnote{This one took some digging. It's from his essay ``The Poet'': ``Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional {[}\ldots{]} Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.'' Where do they even find this stuff?} — but every poem is open to interpretation and analysis. The author of the Ode was not wrong. We shy away from those ends that hurt and any beginnings that might follow in favor of our dreams of perpetual perfection.
The Ode is just a poem, it is no holy text—what was it Emerson said? The poet nails a symbol to a sense that was true for a moment but soon becomes false, while the mystic mistakes the singular for the universal?\footnote{This one took some digging. It's from his essay ``The Poet'': ``Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional {[}\ldots{]} Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.'' Where do they even find this stuff?}—but every poem is open to interpretation and analysis. The author of the Ode was not wrong. We shy away from those ends that hurt and any beginnings that might follow in favor of our dreams of perpetual perfection.
This applies just as readily to familial relationships as it does to romantic ones. Ioan and I do this in our relationship just as much as ey does this when ey remembers Rareș and every single Odist does when thinking about the poet. Our immortality gifts us the ability to do this to an uncomfortably endless degree.