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Little children delighted to hear how the poor things called illusions
were banished from the Country of the Real,
how one-dimensional Mr. Line woke up in a two-dimensional world,
and how brave a young tune slew cacophonous beasts and won a melodious bride
in that strange country where the landscape is all of sound and all living things are music.
LAST AND FIRST MEN.
Olaf Stapledon
Little children delighted to hear how
the poor things called illusions
were banished from the Country of the Real,
how one-dimensional Mr. Line
woke up in a two-dimensional world,
and how brave a young tune
slew cacophonous beasts
and won a melodious bride
in that strange country where
the landscape is all of sound
and all living things are music.
LAST AND FIRST MEN. Olaf Stapledon