Thorns of Immortality
by Patryk Rebisz


Part I (short excerpts) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1. The Scar In The Sky
"The Poet often stared into that abyss, pushing his imagination at impossible speeds towards other galaxies fascinated by the idea that a being could float to such distant places, if only in his thoughts."

"Against the large disk of the neighboring planet, this frontier outpost looked so insignificant that if one ever considered humanity's role in the universe, this reclusive place would be a perfect metaphor: a tiny spec of life in a trifling part of an average galaxy."

"The difference between yesterday and today was in the perception, implying that there was nothing permanent - everything in a constant flux with definitions changing based on a point of view."

"The Poet thought of great stone artifacts of past civilizations and imagined how even those will one day succumb to nature - stones, just like people, turn to dust too."

"At first people climbed the mountains, crossed the deserts, seas and oceans. When there was no other new place to go on Earth, they took off in fragile rockets towards space wandering further and further away from the fire of the Sun into darkness."

"Flight used to be a domain of gods, out of human reach - when the space exploration kicked into gear, people have forgotten that fulfilling one's fantasy often is the easiest way to kill the dream."