  | "A fantastic, solemn, region" | Frontispiece | | FACING | | PAGE | | "Gracefully he floated over their heads" | 28 | | "A cocoanut palace against a mountain of vanilla ice cream" | 114 | | "I want to know how the earth looks when you are standing on the moon" | 120 | | "And now, today, down at the bottom of the ocean, those cities and those marble temples are still standing" | 124 | | "Could lift it in the air to any height, crew, passengers, and cargo" | 154 | | "And glide forever, a homeless vagrant through the dusky void" | 170 | | "Far and fast, even for a bird man" | 180 | | "But who ever saw such a diamond?" | 198 | | "A most unusual country!" | 206 | | "But once a city?" | 208 | | "Older than human history" | 209 | | "The dried bones of its own past, whatever it was" | 212 | | "But why build their cities in those sunless chasms?" | 213 | | "And over everything an awful silence" | 214 | | "A world of dust and ashes" | 215 | | "The diamonds are there, and plenty of them" | 216 | | "With long arms and very short legs" | 217 | | "But the Diva was far away. She heard nothing save the thing unheard by others" | 226 |
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