Solar Boat Sighting

"The pharaohs, like the moth among the arc lights, had been entranced by the flaming journey of the sun. Some had even constructed, hopefully, their own solar boats. Perhaps, I thought, those boats symbolized the frail vessel of which Plato was later to speak--that vessel on which to risk the voyage of life, or, rather, eternity, which was inevitably man's compulsive interest." -- Loren Eiseley channeling Ray Manzarek