"Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?"

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the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni