It has been told of a modern astronomer that one summer night,
when he was withdrawing to his chamber, the brightness showed
a phenomenon. He passed the whole night in observing it, and
when they came to him early in the morning and found him in the
same attitude, he said, like one who has been collecting his
thoughts for a few moments:
“It must be thus; but I will go to bed before it is too late.”
He had gazed the entire night and was not aware of it.
(511)
See ABSORPTION, MENTAL.