Cosmos Incorporated (2008)
“Her beauty is indescribable. Words would need to be invented, in fact should be invented, here and now, just to describe her.
She is flame. Or, she is the light of a newborn universe created by a very ancient fire.
Her hair is very short and of an ash-blond color similar to the lunar quicksilver of her complexion. She is starfire—the living manifestation of starfire. She is there, beside the circular window overlooking the human world, and she is as beautiful and pure as an icon.
Look at her ey...es, says a voice inside Plotkin that has nothing to do with the instruction program. Don’t lose sight of her eyes.
I saw her face Now I’m a believer Without a trace Of doubt in my mind… An old song from Britain’s Mersey Beat era of the 1960s? Why did it pop into his head just now, as he stands transfixed by this gaze that seems to look into infinity? A double abyss that blends into a single one, looking into the frontal lobe of his brain, just behind the skin and bones of his skull, just beyond the barrier separating the visible from the invisible, and shining with a strange light that seems to absorb all other light around it.MoreLess
She is flame. Or, she is the light of a newborn universe created by a very ancient fire.
Her hair is very short and of an ash-blond color similar to the lunar quicksilver of her complexion. She is starfire—the living manifestation of starfire. She is there, beside the circular window overlooking the human world, and she is as beautiful and pure as an icon.
Look at her ey...es, says a voice inside Plotkin that has nothing to do with the instruction program. Don’t lose sight of her eyes.
I saw her face Now I’m a believer Without a trace Of doubt in my mind… An old song from Britain’s Mersey Beat era of the 1960s? Why did it pop into his head just now, as he stands transfixed by this gaze that seems to look into infinity? A double abyss that blends into a single one, looking into the frontal lobe of his brain, just behind the skin and bones of his skull, just beyond the barrier separating the visible from the invisible, and shining with a strange light that seems to absorb all other light around it.MoreLess
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