North Star

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“See, Buddy?  Dat de north star.  Goes very bright, and den she fades again, every four days.  Dat is one thing you can count on.  Everything else in dis goddam world changin so fast dat a mon cannot keep up no more, but de north star is always dere, boy, de cold eye of it, watchin de seasons come and go.

It were watchin on de night dat you were borned, and it be watchin when dat night comes dat you die.”                                            Ellipsis follows her own north star.

Matthiessen, Peter. (1975).  Far Tortuga.  NY:  Vintage Contemporaries (p. 52)