“I want to take you as close as you can get, I want to feel your ecstasy as you feel mine, I want to bridge the final gap between us, I want us to come together in a place where each can know the other does not lie.”

—  Norman Spinrad, book The Void Captain's Tale

Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 15 (p. 201)

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