“'We are strangers, lost and bemused," Roadstrum said to the lady. "We have landed here by accident. We are looking for a lady who was singing, the lady who (according to silly myth) is identical with the planet and who sang the planet into being."”

—  R. A. Lafferty

Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 6

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