luna reduxe: and the moon is full of wrinkles

“It was forty years ago today…” Well, almost. Essentially a re-up of a post from a year back; on thisoccasion simply to commemorate what many continue to regard as an elaboratehoax designed to cement President John F. Kennedy’s vision of the USA’striumph in the Space Race and set in stone the mission statementfirst put before a

and the moon is full of wrinkles

I saw the new moon late yestreen,Wi’ the auld moon in her arm:And if ye gang to sea, maister,I fear we’ll suffer harm. From the anonymous Scottish ballad, Sir Patrick Spens. “la voyage dans la lune” by george méliès, 1902. “I’m melting…“ I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the airAbove a hazy tree-and-farmhouse clusterAs