In Culture
In Chinese, 虛梁 (Xū Liáng), meaning Temple, refers to an asterism consisting of κ Aquarii, 44 Aquarii, 51 Aquarii and HD 216718. Consequently, κ Aquarii itself is known as 虛梁三 (Xū Liáng sān, English: the Third Star of Temple.). From this Chinese name, the name Heu Leang was appeared, meaning the Empty Bridge.
USS Situla (AK-140) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.
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“The anorexic prefigures this culture in rather a poetic fashion by trying to keep it at bay. He refuses lack. He says: I lack nothing, therefore I shall not eat. With the overweight person, it is the opposite: he refuses fullness, repletion. He says, I lack everything, so I will eat anything at all. The anorexic staves off lack by emptiness, the overweight person staves off fullness by excess. Both are homeopathic final solutions, solutions by extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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