In a sense, the sky and the reflection of the sky together give us a truer picture of the scene.

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Once it was on the ground, the moon was a pockmarked, sandy boulder, so dull and opaque that it was incredible to think that it had once illuminated the sky with its shining reflection.

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In order to understand what we are seeing up in the sky, we have to look down at its reflection.

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With the sun setting, the sky is etched with a calligraphy of pink clouds, their reflection a soft wash on the river surface.

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Beneath the surface of the water they are a creamy turquoise, and when the sky is clear, as it is now, the cerulean reflection on the sea is otherworldly.

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The evening sky was pale and empty and the light from the kitchen window made a yellow square reflection in the darkening yard.

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Now I was standing before a man who resembled my old reflection almost exactly but who had been changed in some manner, the way a lawn under a cloudy sky changes when the sun comes out.

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