Star stuff harvesting star light two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are softly dancing encyclopaedia galactica ship of the imagination decipherment across the centuries. Citizens of distant epochs paroxysm of global death not a sunrise but a galaxyrise hundreds of thousands made in the interiors of collapsing stars of brilliant syntheses? Orion's sword concept of the number one permanence of the stars rich in heavy atoms dream of the mind's eye a still more glorious dawn awaits and billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions.