Ocupation: Film writer
Life: b. October 19, 1946
Birthday: October 19
The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.
source: Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”
topic: Fire, Light, Sight, Northern Lights