It Is Useless To Send Armies Against

Birth Was Something That Came Quite Unexpectedly, And Afterwards There Was One Child More In The House.

Under The Dominion Of The Priests Our Earth Became The Ascetic Planet; A Squalid Den Careering Through Space, Peopled By Discontented And Arrogant Creatures, Who Were Disgusted With Life, Abhorred Their Globe As A Vale Of Tears, And Who In Their Envy And Hatred Of Beauty And Joy Did Themselves As Much Harm As Possible.

But When I Was Twelve Years Old I Caught My First Strong Glimpse Of One Of The Fundamental Forces Of Existence, Whose Votary I Was Destined To Be For Life - Namely, Beauty.

I Came Into The World Two Months Too Soon, I Was In Such A Hurry.

I Was Always Hearing That I Was Pale And Thin And Small.