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His wife and daughter’s troubled relationship is the novel’s pole star: “Flashlight” is less about the absent Serk than the omnipresent, annoying Anne.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025
You can then use free planetarium software online to determine where the comet will be moving in relation to the pole star on the night you're looking at it.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2023
She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022
“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022
The Antarctic pole star now rose to his view.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
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