View from Sirius

Voltaire’s short story, Micromegas, tells of an explorer from Sirius. Sirius is the brightest star we can see with our naked eye in our sky.
The phrase “view from Sirius” has been taken up by a number of French writers and is used to mean both taking an overview, as in “le regard en haut”, or the “view from on high”, and an exercise in awareness involving viewing the ordinary as extraordinary, but especially it’s an exercise in changing perspectives by extension, following a line of flight to a far from equilibrium point. By pushing the dimensions of size and qualities, he throws the reader into perspectives previously unconsidered and in so doing enables us to think about ourselves differently.
The view from Sirius is the different view, the whole view, and the way of revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary.