For although a star were as black as ink and as rugged as a walnut, so amply does the sun bathe heaven with radiance, that it would sparkle like a point of light for us.
即使一颗星黑如墨、粗糙如核桃,太阳把天空浸染得如此明亮,它在我们眼中仍会闪成一个光点。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · An Inland Voyage · Origny Sainte-Benoîte · A By-Day —