Dark dominion

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Canonical title

Dark dominion

Original title

Dark dominion

Original publication date

1954

Epigraph

Lucifer in Starlight

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprse. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Avove the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose. Poor prey to his h... (show all)ot fit of pride were those. And now upon his western wing he leaned, Now his huge bulk o'er Afric's sands careened, Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows. Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scards With memory of the old revolt from Awe, He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked and sank, Around the ancient rack marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. George Meredith

Dedication

For Emily, Margaret and Miranda

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For Ellice and Dan

First words

I awoke in darkness and sat up to snap on the bedside lamp.

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At eight o'clock on the evening of February 17 Cameron Hume left the medical centre of the Santa Felicia Island base and drove his jeep to the auditorium to hear Dr. Roger Staghorn lecture to a group of young naval officers o... (show all)n the mathematical theory of minimals.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Let us believe that in the vastness of space man will one more recognise the divinity of his origin which upon other worlds will permit him to grow until his soul is a proper temple for the god that fills him.

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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And Hume was thinking that when the last rites were over and the cloud of sorrow dissipated, he would knell at Lael's feet and ask for the right to remain in that land of freedom until he had won his horns and could clasp her to him for ever.

Original language*

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