-bowerbird:

It's a well known optical illusion.

When we have something to compare something too, those somethings 
look larger than when we don't.

tedd

>speaking of understanding,
>can anyone explain the phenomenon
>of the moon looking huge when
>right behind some looming object?
>
>it happened to me tonight,
>caught the moon and it was
>huge among the wilshire corridor,
>so i followed it out to the pacific,
>where it shrank to normal size
>as it set against the ocean's horizon
>(covington visual, bottom-half-full,
>nice and fuzzy, it dropped very fast...)
>
>-bowerbird
>
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