"... more like inflamed flesh than the lucid reds of ordinary sunsets ... the glow is intense; that is what strikes everyone; it has prolonged the daylight, and optically changed the season; it bathes the whole sky, it is mistaken for the reflection of a great fire."
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1884 - 1889
From writing based on the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in August of 1883.
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