Bloodrise

Bloodrise

"A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers


"Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
Red sky at morning, sailor take warning;"

-Passage from an ancient rhyme


"Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds."

-Williams Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593)


"[With the beauty of science we now know] due to the rotation of the Earth, from west to east, storm systems tend to travel eastward. A reddish sunrise, caused by particles suspended in the air, often foreshadows an approaching storm, which will be arriving from the West, within the day." I suppose this is a bit of homage to those phrases, but also to bad omens in general. Do you ever wake up and know right from the start that that particular day is going to be a rough one? And that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong? I had one of those days recently.

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