Dear Neptune
Leverrier
Genre: | Advertisement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Astronomy, Discovery, Controversy |
Wishes the planet Neptune to 'come home' to its 'disconsolate parent' (an allusion to Urbain J J Leverrier) and warns that if it continues its 'vagabond career, every House in the Zodiac will be closed against you'. |
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