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Re: penumbra

From:     blp
Category: Art
Date:     26 February 2007
Time:     09:35 AM

Review:

A beautiful word, perhaps not used strictly correctly here, but excusable in the service of poetry.
Dictionary.com has: the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body,
as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off.

also

	the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. 

also 

	a shadowy, indefinite, or marginal area.


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