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There are skies we have not seen yet! There are whole realms still unvisited by us. We will not be penned in even a giant's pen. We fly!
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Captain Roadstrum, Ch. 2

 

R. A. Lafferty

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I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

 

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The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.

 

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The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.

 

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Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne,
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific, and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise,
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

 

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