After Doomsday Painting

“…the sun disc burned within outspread wings of zodiacal light. And beyond and around lay space, totally black, totally immense, bestrewn with a million wintry stars. He realized with a shudder how little difference Ragnarok had made.” “Not just the glory of the galaxy, new suns, new folk, new knowledge as the Europa circumnavigated the great Catherine's wheel of stars, though that was enough splendour for a lifetime. But the final proof to a continent still sceptical of international cooperation and complete sexual equality, that many nations together could do this thing and that it could be done by women.” “But man had to go look first of all for God. And fail, naturally. Man is a nut from way back. The galaxy will miss a lot of fun, now he's gone.” “...a second generation of explorers went forth. They had to go further than the first; planets of interest to them lay far, far away, lost in a wilderness of suns whose worlds were barren, or savage, or too foreign for intercourse.” “‘…if the Galactics noticed us, they were benevolent secret guardians; or not-so-benevolent keepers; or kept strictly hands off.’” “Yeh, he thought, I get the idea. These people aren't human. Even Ramri, who sings Mozart themes and has Justice Holmes for a hero. Ramri, about the most simático guy I ever met—he's not human.” “‘There'd be small glory in repeating such a trip. Better go some place new?’” “‘What a splendid facet of reality was darkened when Earth came to an end! I do not think there can ever have been a nobler concept than your own country's constitutional law. And chess, and Beethoven's last quartets, and…’” “‘I—that is—I mean—All those ridiculous nations and tribes there— hold-overs from the Stone-Age, and still unable to agree... in the face of galactic culture... agree on unity and global peace—'” “‘How can two or three or a dozen dustmotes of ships, blundering blind in the galaxy, come upon each other before we die of old age?'” -Poul Anderson (After Doomsday)

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 60 H x 1.5 D in

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