a description of the amazing and exciting adventures i have here in baltimore--- and other lies.

 
Star light, star bright, first star I see, tonight.
I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight.

As often as we make this atavistic prayer to the nightly gods, we forget that the sky is a hard thing to fathom. For example, the first thing most people focus on as being the first "star" is actually Venus. Now, while it is, indeed, the Morning Star, in astrological and astronomical terms it is a planet, wandering about the cosmos. However, being that Venus is also the third brightest object in the night-time sky, it is easy to confuse its luminosity for star power.

The caution here is to make sure that you are actually wishing on a star when making your plea, and not wasting it on some heavenly body who would care not one whit about you or your foolish hopes. We have to look carefully, and perhaps even wait for a true astral form to peek through the veil of night in order to aid our mundane desires.

So, adding to the complexity of for what we are wishing, we are challenged by how.
posted by gregorio at 9:49 PM