Vikings
“Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.’ Roy Batty, Blade Runner I imagined myself a Viking. I daydreamed wonders I might have seen during a life lived a thousand and more years ago: sea unicorns fencing with corkscrew horns in the ice of the High Arctic . . . motes of incense in shafts of sunlight through windows in the dome of Hagia Sophia . . . snarling, wri...nkled lips on the faces of marble lions on Delos . . . the aurora borealis pulsing across the dark, welcoming me home . . . and best of all, no explanations for any of it.
I might have been the first of my kind to see the sun setting in the west behind the American continent, watched icebergs calving from Greenland’s glaciers in a springtime long ago, or served in the private bodyguard of a Byzantine emperor. The possibilities kept coming but there was a sadness about it all – because the chance to live a life like his or gaze upon a world such as he knew was long gone.MoreLess
I might have been the first of my kind to see the sun setting in the west behind the American continent, watched icebergs calving from Greenland’s glaciers in a springtime long ago, or served in the private bodyguard of a Byzantine emperor. The possibilities kept coming but there was a sadness about it all – because the chance to live a life like his or gaze upon a world such as he knew was long gone.MoreLess
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