“I will!” He swore to His ancestry. “I will find my due reward!” And on a ship borne on a wave so tall that even the stars moved out of the way did He make His approach of the new land, following the constellation of the tiger and the cherry bough, which leapt ahead of Him in a silver streak, charting the path ahead, the starlight of such brightness that not even the shadow of Death dared approach this vessel.
This paragraph is especially reminiscent of The Starless Sea
