Fantasy & Scifi Graphics 6
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. . . it happens that the moon appears
More swiftly to return to any sign
Along the Zodiac, than doth the sun . . .
~ Lucretius, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things).
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A Moon-Calf now means someone who is absent-minded or not very bright. At one time it described a person who was so carried away by love of the Goddess that he/she was nearly oblivious to the world around them.
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