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Saturday I saw a rainbow. Actually I saw two, the whole bow of both, one fainter and outside the other, like nested parentheses. I never realized before how much darker it is outside the rainbow than it is inside. It almost looked like the rainbow was a pressurized dome over the city of Newark.

I never saw lightning cross a rainbow before, either. I was on a train at the time, out in the Meadowlands, and we passed so close to one end of the rainbow that I think we might actually have gone through it. I can’t be sure because the near end disappeared just when I'd have expected to be stripey. But the conductor announced “anyone who wants to be dropped off at the rainbow, just let us know,” so I’m guessing he thought so too.

( Cut for the minor mentionables of a pleasant but ordinary weekend )

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