Two thoughts that do not belong here have been preoccupying me amid the uproar of getting everything reorganized: how can it be explained that Latin left no traces in Germania south of the Limes, yet in England such lasting traces were left in English, even though the Roman occupation was far more fleeting there; and are not stars that are moving away from us at a speed near that of light also on a collision course with us, as in mathematical reality a bullet we fired on earth that flew around the globe would have to hit us in the back?
