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Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.

We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.

Upon the delicate chin you turned
Venus had set her cloven sign.
Like embers seen through darkest wine
Your unextinguished tresses burned.

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?

Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone,
Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.

Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.

I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.