Imagine a young man with quick, restless eyes, holding a stringed instrument something like a balalaika. He plays. Riveted to the strings of this instruments is the flickering phantom of humanity. Once science had learned to measure light rays, it became possible to manipulate their movement. Let us suppose that a wave of light is inhabited by intelligent beings who possess their own government, their own laws, even their own prophets. Let us take, for example, the law of the births of similar people. It states that a ray, the crests of whose waves mark the birthyears of great individuals with identical destinies, completes a single vibration in 365 years. - Velimir Khlebnikov
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