“This myth filter was necessary. The ship logs could not tell it rightly nor could any flatfooted prose. And the deeds were too bright to be viewed direct. They could only be sung by a bard gone blind from viewing suns that were suns.”

— R. A. Lafferty

Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 1

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