"You used to only see one face
of it."
"That idea is really difficult
to grasp. I'm so used to seeing all sides of it night after night."
"Yes, well, you're used to
seeing it with water and plants on it, too."
"Heh, there is that. Sometimes
I do imagine it: looking up and seeing it white and dead, like a skull, a
rebuke to us of what we could be if we didn't take good care of our
planet."
"Heh, I don't get the
impression that one person in a million thought of it that way. Evidently most
people thought of it as a very romantic sight."
"I've heard that, and I found
it completely baffling. The stars I can understand, and fireflies, certainly,
since it's a mating display by the insects themselves, but the dreary light of
a lifeless Moon? I would think that the light of our own terraformed Moon, even
though it's duller, would be more romantic, since it shows how much humans love
life, that we'd spread it to a new world."
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