<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Expostulation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Against too many writers of science fiction </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why did you lure us on like this, <br>Light-year on light-year, through the abyss, <br>Building (as though we cared for size!) <br>Empires that cover galaxies <br>If at the journey's end we find <br>The same old stuff we left behind, <br>Well-worn Tellurian stories of <br>Crooks, spies, conspirators, or love, <br>Whose setting might as well have been <br>The Bronx, Montmartre, or Bedinal Green?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I leave this green-floored cell, <br>Roofed with blue air, in which we dwell, <br>Unless, outside its guarded gates,<br>Long, long desired, the Unearthly waits <br>Strangeness that moves us more than fear, <br>Beauty that stabs with tingling spear, <br>Or Wonder, laying on one's heart <br>That finger-tip at which we start <br>As if some thought too swift and shy <br>For reason's grasp had just gone by?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clive+Staples+Lewis">Clive Staples Lewis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358444" data-title="An Expostulation de Clive Staples Lewis" data-description="Against too many writers of science fiction Why did you lure us on like this, Light-year on light-year, through the abyss, Building (as though we cared for size!) Empires that cover galaxies If at the journey's end we find The same old stuf..."></div> </div> </div>

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