I suppose the easy thing to say is that we don’t see them _as_ binary. More interesting: I suppose in some cases we see both stars - where the light from both combined is responsible for the percept; conversely, when one star is very faint, we only see the bright one. Physics >> semantics

Le Guin wrote an essay about it, ‘From Elfland to Poughkeepsie’ where she quotes Eddison, Tolkien and Kenneth Morris.

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“Airport Book Brain is therefore not just a problem of political leadership, but of intellectual self-discipline. It asks whether we are willing to tolerate slower progress, weaker slogans, and messier arguments in exchange for decisions grounded in reality.”

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Does extracting £10,000 a year from one’s tenants count? One does have to write an occasional letter to one’s estate manger.