Where was the need for this? What did you lack there where you were the lord? Why did you wish to leap across the fence of dream? What magnet tugs this curiosity? Whence comes this urge for the unknown? What lies behind this age-old longing? Why do they draw us so, those mysterious worlds, that lie beyond this road? (Translated by Rafey Habib & C. M. Nairn) ^ 26