Me Thinks

Last week I saw this play at the Hale Center Theater. It is a marvelous story about this woman, Henrietta Leavitt, an American astronomer:

There were a few parts of the play that I especially liked because of the lines in the script and the analogies and meanings that formed in my mind. Though they probably won't have as much meaning without the context of the full production and actors, I share a few.

Henrietta (H): We go, we come back.

Peter (P): I imagine it will be thunderous.

H: I'm certain of it.

P: So, you leave for awhile and I leave for awhile.

H: It's just space.

P: And time.

H: Which leaves us?

P: Afar. But not apart.

H: Afar, but not apart. I like that.

 

H: I used to think that to be truly alive I needed answers.  I needed to know.  But all this does not in fact need to be known, does it? We do.

P: We do.

H: Because the real point is seeing something bigger. And knowing we're a small part of it, if we're lucky.  In the end that is a life well-lived.

 

H: Sometime from now I gather myself.  And sneak outside--and look up. In perfect silence.  And I know--that distance is only space and time, and for some us...light.  I am out of time.  But light has never let me down.