To my sister Laurie
We all love you
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
– JEREMIAH 51:37
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
– W. B. YEATS
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
– H. G. WELLS