The
moon over Liberland has the shape of C
or D or O.
There is no doubt about it. Or the mirror image of C. Or the mirror image of D. Or the mirror image of O. Which is why we can draw easily the
conclusion there are but three phases of the moon. No new
moon. It means the moon never disappears. It fades away, but
it does not disappear. However it would be better to write and
speak about three and a half phases, because sometimes the
moon has the shape of B. This
phenomenon is very irregular and unpredictable, that's why it
deserves to be labelled as a half-phase, or a part-phase.
Whereas
the moon over Esplanade has the shape of o
or c or e. And
it never has the shape of b. Let alone
of p. So we can't speak and write
about the quarters – then what can we speak and write about:
thirds?
If the
moon over Esplanade has only three phases, and the moon over
Liberland has three and a half phases, is it the same moon in
two forms (upper-case and lower-case), or are they two
different, not the same, moons?
Oh!
This could mean twice as much sighing. And twice as much
howling.
How
about two moons in one form?
Oh!
This would be really too much.
If
there were, somewhere here, the third moon, it would have the
following shapes: < ( [ { . And the
mirror images of these signs, of course. The third moon would
be a four-phase one, though to tell and to write the truth
these could be four variants of one phase.
Where
could it be?
Over
the beach?
Over
the ocean?
Over
the forest?
Over
the mountain?
Over
the pond in the park?
In the
window?
Let's
look for it.
If we
find it, there will be three times as much sighing. No – two
and a half. The third moon is never full.
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