This seemed clever for a minute. Then I remembered that East and West don’t even generalize to a global scale, let alone an extraplanetary one, and it stopped seeming clever.
One can talk about points on Earth corresponding to the position of a celestial body—for example, the high tide being “directly under” the moon, or noon being “directly under” the sun.
If it is noon in California and high tide in New York, and you’re in Missouri, I think it makes sense to say you are east of the sun, west of the moon.
-- @superlativeish
Having just looked this up, it reads like a walk-through to a point-and-click adventure.
Yes, the early point-and-click adventures were based on these types of fairy tales.
This seemed clever for a minute. Then I remembered that East and West don’t even generalize to a global scale, let alone an extraplanetary one, and it stopped seeming clever.
One can talk about points on Earth corresponding to the position of a celestial body—for example, the high tide being “directly under” the moon, or noon being “directly under” the sun.
If it is noon in California and high tide in New York, and you’re in Missouri, I think it makes sense to say you are east of the sun, west of the moon.
In other words, the plane that contains both you and the axis of the Earth divides the Universe into East and West. (Ignoring relativity)