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# The Sway of Reason

> "I have seen the dark universe yawning\\
> Where the black planets roll without aim,\\
> Where they roll in their horror unheeded,\\
> without knowledge or lustre or name."
>
> Nemesis, 1917
> {:.attribution}

Yet now the sway of reason seemed irrefutably shaken, for this Cyclopean maze
of squared, curved, and angled blocks had features which cut off all
comfortable refuge. It was, very clearly, the blasphemous city of the mirage in
stark, objective, and ineluctable reality. That damnable portent had had a
material basis after all—there had been some horizontal stratum of ice dust in
the upper air, and this shocking stone survival had projected its image across
the mountains according to the simple laws of reflection, Of course, the
phantom had been twisted and exaggerated, and had contained things which the
real source did not contain; yet now, as we saw that real source, we thought it
even more hideous and menacing than its distant image.

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