England's Comet

Roosevelt Gordon-York England.

1825 - 1899.

Roosevelt Gordon-York England was born in the country of Opron, in the city of Norfolk in Garden County. And although he was a writer, he also shared a fascination with comets and other celestial bodies throughout his life, although he never was given the chance to study them before he died. 

Although he lived a full life, working first as a newspaper delivery boy then going on to become a famed journalist and writer of popular fiction and other genres, it is his death that many focus on as his real historic impact, after all had he not spoken of a great comet's return on the day he died, he may not have had the same impact on the world. 

He was born on the thirteenth of January, eighteen-twenty-five, and he passed away on the twenty-first of December, eighteen-ninety-nine, at the old age of seventy four. Both of these dates coincide with the celestial object known as R88-G042YE, which was a comet known to circle the Tarris system at more than five billion kilometers away, equal to thirty-six astronomical units in distance from the system rather than the planet. The object, this means, re-appears in the sky every seventy-five to seventy-six years, and it happened to fly over the planet on the day of England's birth, and appeared again on the day of his death, nearly seventy-five years later, arriving only a few weeks early of it's own deadline. Some believe that the two were tied together, and that they had come into the world together, and that someday soon, they would leave it together.

For this reason, the object R88-G042YE was renamed England's Comet, and every year on the date of his death, the world watches the early morning sky for the return of England's Comet.

Roosevelt Gordon-York England was known for his declining health in the years before he died, and he himself predicted the return of the comet only a few years before his death in eighteen-ninety-nine. Over the years, he had also been known for his constant eating habits, as well as the fact that much of the food he ate was unhealthy and only added to his declining health. He suffered an increased heart-rate due to his habits which continued on through his life and further restricted his health by endangering him whenever he went out for walks or other activities. He was known to sweat when exerting himself too much, and it was known that he owned several fainting couches inside his home for this reason as well. But after several weeks of over-indulgence, he finally succumbed to his ill health, suffering a heart attack and dying in his favorite rocking chair on the front porch of his home, just as the comet was passing by.

The last time England's Comet was seen in the sky was on December twenty-first, nineteen-seventy-four, roughly a year before Agnes Albergotti died, although she herself would never make any remarks about the comet or Roosevelt England. It is projected that the next appearance of the comet will take place in seventy-five years, in twenty-forty-nine.