While some solid-state lasers do produce beams in visible wavelengths, most lasers contemplated for weapons use . . . produce infrared beams invisible to the human eye.

Imagine a woman. Imagine a spider. Imagine / the woman is a spider, but also a woman, and also / imagine that she made everything you see, / and also that she made you, so that you might see / the other things she made. Imagine that she made / your imagination.

"Pharaoh has taken back the lower lands and has called for all his servants," said Greatgrandfather. "I will return to service to a true ruler of the red and black lands, for however many years the gods have left for me. There is much to be written, and there are many things to be corrected."