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[petronia]

It turns out that Brian May - former Queen guitarist who wrote "We Will Rock You", which for most of my life I didn't think was written by a person at all so much as it was adapted from an ancient Inuktituk incantation that was chanted at ritual games of shinny with the shaman rhythmically banging his staff against the ice or something like that - has a PhD in astronomy.

My sister shows me his website, on which he makes people identify photographs of zodiac constellations for signed CDs.

...The Ur-narrative of Real Life is a weird place, yanno? A weird place.