MAGIC WORDS
• Beetle juice
"Sailors pronounce Betelgeuse 'Beetle juice' and so do I." -- Basil Bunting,
quoted in The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 to the Present, edited
by Frank Kermode (197 )
• Beteiguex
• Betelgeux
• Betelgeuze
• Betelguex
In Literature:
• "A man is a cup able to hold his gill of the moon and magic, and only to
yearn for Betelgeuse. It is his glory and his ruin that he is so quickly filled,
and must forever know hunger." -- Thomas Wolfe, O Lost (1929)
• From Alan Watts, "Incantation of the Stars" (1971), Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts
Unknown (1974):
[T]he magician, his voice reverberating
without echo in the dark imaginary dome,
tells me the names of lights nearer home --
names whose strangeness to our tongue
measures the far immensity
of Aldebaran, bright horn of the Bull,
Arcturus, the Plowman's spear,
Betelgeuse and Rigel, the Hunter's jewels,
Vega, playing the Lyre, and Deneb, head of the swan.
• "He had a pull to the origin of things, the first day, the first man, the unknown
sea, Betelgeuse, the buried continent. From passive places his imagination
sprang a harpoon." -- Edward Said, "'All Interweavingly Working
Together': Herman Melville's Moby Dick," The American Mystery (2000)
Beyond
Variations and Incantations:
• Above and beyond
• Great beyond
In Literature:
• "[H]is heart clenched with the beauty of that single magical word -- Beyond."
-- Stephen Bowkett, Ice: A Frozen World (2001)