"A fantastic, solemn, region" _Frontispiece_
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"Gracefully he floated over their heads" 28
"A cocoanut palace against a mountain of vanilla ice
cream" 114
"I want to know how the earth looks when you are
standing on the moon" 120
"And now, today, down at the bottom of the ocean,
those cities and those marble temples are still
standing" 124
"Could lift it in the air to any height, crew, passengers,
and cargo" 154
"And glide forever, a homeless vagrant through the
dusky void" 170
"Far and fast, even for a bird man" 180
"But who ever saw such a diamond?" 198
"A most unusual country!" 206
"But once a city?" 208
"Older than human history" 209
"The dried bones of its own past, whatever it was" 212
"But why build their cities in those sunless chasms?" 213
"And over everything an awful silence" 214
"A world of dust and ashes" 215
"The diamonds are there, and plenty of them" 216
"With long arms and very short legs" 217
"But the Diva was far away. She heard nothing save
the thing unheard by others" 226