Thus he compares objects in the sky to fish in the ocean, with the asteroids as minnows, the major planets as whales and, within the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune where Pluto and other dwarf planets can be found, "a previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea".
It is arguably the most audacious maritime adventure ever undertaken – a mission worthy of James Cook or Christopher Columbus to unlock the secrets of unknown seas and faraway lands.
It must be a tremendously enjoyable intellectual exercise paddling around in the seas of faraway worlds imagining life as a mist, or life that takes three millenniums to form a thought, or life based on liquid nitrogen.
In Otis Chandler's office there are pictures of his immediate family, pictures of the sea, pictures of faraway places.
For me, The Beach Boys (California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations) evoked sun, sea, sand, and faraway west coast Americana.
The book, "Enn sigli ég minn sjó" ("More Life on the Ocean Wave"), was the seafaring memoirs of Hrafn Valdimarsson, and it was a horn of plenty when it came to tales of hardship on the seas and adventures in faraway lands.
Lem's faraway world of Solaris is a sea of psychoactive imagery, making it an effective tool to plumb the contradictions of human consciousness as it reacts to those who would study it.
The makeshift raft was bobbing up and down, and the man sitting on it had his legs in the yellow-brown water, which stretched around him for miles and miles like a strange sea, the tops of faraway trees sticking out of it like little islands.
To someone living in the centre of the Greek crisis, experiencing the rapid social changes happening in the Balkans, America will always feel like a faraway, terrifying castle, guarded by the sea.
After living in a freshwater lake here, they slither to the sea and spawn near the faraway island of Tonga.
