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"There is only so long you can look straight into the sun before your retinas burn. But in the seconds before they sear, it must appear to you as though the sun itself had descended from its place in the sky and taken up residence right inside your vision. And afterwards, the moment of destruction must seem a sublime experience because though your life is now utter darkness, for that one instant, it was pure light. And I have to wonder: isn't this what you were looking for up there in the first place? Isn’t this what you were after?"