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I will be double-damned to a better Hell than Hellpepper Planet if I will have my ending here in peace! Peace be not the end of my epic! An epic is already failed if it have an ending. I don't care how it ended the first time — it will not end the same now!

— R. A. Lafferty Space Chantey (1968)

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The shapes they take are both objective and subjective. One can shape them a little with one's own mind.

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I am mistress of all the sciences. I go so far beyond all else that my work is called magic.

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