The observatory should
be located on the mountain. One can see more from the
mountain top. Provided that clouds don't shroud it,
otherwise nothing can be seen. Or nothing but ghosts and
phantoms, but they are not interesting – any wind blow can
disperse and sweep them away. Usually we are too close to
the earth, to the ground, and too far from the sky. The
mountain takes us away from the earth and closer to the sky.
So, it's enough to climb the mountain and start to observe.
Now we look down, now we look up. This alternate change is
essential. Looking up or down too long makes us dizzy, which
consecutively cause various deformations and distortions.
Although deformed observations can also be interesting and
bring us some important pieces of information, anyway not
deformed and not distorted pieces of information seem more
valuable. That is why it's good to move the head. Of course,
looking forward is the safest, as well as the least
deforming, but, quite strangely, not everything is happening
in front of us, well! the majority of things and affairs is
happening not in front of us.
For
example, astronomic things and affairs usually happen
above us. Not many of them happen right above the horizon
so that we don't need to look up to see them. Fortunately
astronomic affairs are considered here rather unimportant,
so the observatory is equipped poorly. There are no
telescopes, no measuring devices – what were they for if
no measurements are made? There is no edifice deserving to
be proudly named “observatory” – neither a giant stone
circle, nor even more mysterious dome which could open
like a shell, or turn like a monstrous eye on a movable
stalk. However it would be untruth to say there is no
observatory here. There is a MOUNTAIN here. It's enough to climb it and
make observations. And if the light is too sharp, you have
to protect them with your hand pressing the edge of the
palm to the forehead, thus making a kind of peak over the
eyebrows. If the things we observe are too horrible (the
life of stars, suns, planets, moons and comets is full of
horrible events), then it's enough to turn the palm down
and put it on the nose. If we want to check whether the
horrible events have ended (whether one galaxy has finally
devoured another one) then we make a slit between the
fingers to peep the universe.
That's all.
That's all.
