Quotes About Thulè

Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls,Boils round the naked melancholy islesOf farthest Thulè, and th' Atlantic surgePours in among the stormy Hebrides.

When news of the false alarm leaked to the press, the Air Force denied that the missile warning had ever been taken seriously. Percy, who later became a Republican senator from Illinois, disputed that account. He recalled a sense of panic at NORAD. A subsequent investigation found the cause of the computer glitch. The BMEWS site at Thule had mistakenly identified the moon, slowly rising over Norway, as dozens of long-range missiles launched from Siberia.

En una senda abandonada y triste que recorren tan sólo ángeles malos, una extraña Deidad la negra Noche ha erigido su trono solitario; allí llegué una vez; crucé atrevido de Thule ignota los contornos vagos y al Reino entré que extiende sus confines fuera del Tiempo y fuera del Espacio.

And of the Thule, who carried large stones into their camps and set them up in a pattern for a jumping game, like hopscotch.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.