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shared by all who participated in it, as they hurried orvery little), ah wooded areas and into buildings which seerow one out of another like no structure on earth I'd ever seen

Nowhere did I see anything specifically domestic such as a house, or even a palace On the contrary, the structures were infinitely larger, filled with as bright a light as the garden, with corridors and staircases branching here and there with perfect fluidity Yet orna Indeed, the surfaces and textures were so varied that any one of theht have absorbed me forever

I cannot convey the sense of simultaneous observation that I felt I have to speak now in sequence I have to take various parts of this limitless and brilliant environht on the whole

There were archways, towers, halls, galleries, gardens, great fields, forests, streah the, with Meain and again, my eyes were drawn to some spectacularly beautiful sculpture or cascade of flowers or a giant tree reaching out into the cloudless blue, only to havekept to a tightrope froht fatally fall

I laughed; I wept; I did both, andto hum and tried to see over his shoulder and around hi to lock eyes with this or that person who happened to glance at roups and the parliaations shifted and moved

We were in a vast hall suddenly "God, if David could see this!" I cried; the books and scrolls were endless, and there see in the manner in which all these documents lay open and ready to be examined

"Don't look, because you won't remember it," Memnoch said

He snatched at my hand as if I were

a toddler I had tried to catch hold of a scroll that was filled with an absolutely astonishing explanation of so to do with atoe was gone iarden surrounded us as I lost ainst him

I looked down at the ground and saers of complete perfection; flowers that were the flowers that our flowers of the world ht become! I don't know any other way to describe hoell realized were the petals and the centers and the colors The colors themselves were so distinct and so finely delineated that I was unsure suddenly that our spectrum was even involved

I mean, I don't think our spectrum of color was the limit! I think there was soift of being able to see combinations of color which are not visible chemically on earth

The waves of laughter, of singing, of conversation, became so loud as to overwhelm my other senses; I felt blinded by sound suddenly; and yet the light was laying bare every precious detail

"Sapphirine!" I cried out suddenly, trying to identify the greenish blue of the great leaves surrounding us and gently waving to and fro, and Meain to stop nificence I saw

"But I can't hurt it if I touch, can I?" It see here, fro spires and belfries, to the sweet, soft vines twining upwards in the branches of trees dripping with nificent fruits and flowers "No, no, I wouldn't want to hurt it!" I said

My own voice was distinct to h the voices of all those around me seemed to overpower it