A Moire Pattern of Shadow: Reading the Medea in the Late Afternoon

[BicycleTree]

My hair is cut short enough so that it's pretty much straight, like a wiffle only longer, and the other day I was sitting waiting for the bus in the late afternoon and reading a book (the Medea). The sun was behind me and the hair on my head cast a shadow onto the book. As I turned my head from side to side, the fibers crossing in the shadow weaved in a Moire pattern, their crossings shifting back and forth.

The Medea is a book about an evil woman (Medea) who murders her husband's new wife and that woman's father through poison, the effects of which are described graphically over a couple pages, then kills her own children to spite her husband.

 

[Evo]

I've always been partial to moire, my mother liked it. Kind of neat. Nice that someone as young as you even knows what it is.

 

[DaveC426913]

God is in the details.

 

[hitssquad]

The Medea is a book about an evil woman (Medea) who murders her husband's new wife and that woman's father through poison, the effects of which are described graphically over a couple pages, then kills her own children to spite her husband.

Hayley Shaw did not go that far. She merely gave away her husband's prized Lotus Esprit on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2192&item=4556985749&rd=1

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1436341.html