Rainbow curved and located high above the Sun (or Moon) with its convex side pointing downwards (creating the impression of an "upside down rainbow"); the circumhorizontal arc runs much closer to the horizon, is more straight and located at a significant distance below the Sun (or Moon). Both arcs have their red side pointing towards the sun and their violet part away from it, meaning the circumzenithal arc is red on the bottom, while the circumhorizontal arc is red on top. The circumhorizontal arc is sometimes referred to by the misnomer "fire rainbow". In order to view it, the Sun or
The Rainbow Lawrence's novels is that "In desiring to unite with [the other sex], we are desiring to mingle with something that is deeply - perhaps essentially - not ourselves, and which brings us to experience a character and inwardness that challenge us with their strangeness." Scruton believes that "The Rainbow" vindicates Lawrence's vision. The critic Harold Bloom listed "The Rainbow" in his "The Western Canon" (1994) as one of the books that have been important and influential in Western culture. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked "The Rainbow" forty-eighth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the