Race:	from 12.03.2019 [00:00] to 15.03.2019 [01:00]
Class:	1:8 Nitro buggy
Track:	Naxos
Direction:	Official
Club:	Thursday Nite Live!

Halley's Comet appeared in the sky when Mark Twain was born in 1835. The comet moves in a seventy-five or seventy-six-year orbit, and, as it neared Earth once again, Twain said,

I came in with Halley's Comet... It is coming again ... and I expect to go out with it... The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'
Sure enough, he died on April 21, 1910, just as the comet made its next pass within sight of Earth. And we hear echoes of Shakespeare:

When beggars die, then are no comets seen:
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
But the orbit of Halley's comet specifically mocks the human lifespan. I find a strange song in an 1858 book of French songs: "The Comet of 1832". Since that was three years before Halley's Comet, the song-writer may've made a mistake. Or he may be referring to a different, or even to a fictional, comet. The song begins,

God is sending a comet against us
We shall not escape this great impact
I feel our planet crumbling already...
And it ends,