It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

“Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, gl…”

“But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening..…”

“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky …”

“Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.”