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*Hmm. That's pretty much got to be some lunar-tides love-poetry by the astronomer who discovered Pluto

*What other Percival Lowell would write that? Also his sister was a well-known poet

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In Cosmos, Carl Sagan remarked on Percival Lowell's mapping of Martian canals, and belief that they were made by intelligent design, that it makes him wonder "which side of the telescope the intelligence was on."