And what do you remember seeing in the stars as you observed in the cupola over Athens? Somehow it seems you went to view the earth's attic up there in your cupola.

Cupola stars makes me think of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House," which I recently re-read--the "cup of stars" motif she keeps weaving into the story. What a frightening, disturbing, and somehow realistic tale of a haunting.