Wind howled through invisible spires. A gentle snow carpeted the ground and drifted lazily around the cloaked towers, never quite touching them and settling in subtle, tell-tale piles around the base of the edifice that was simultaneously there but not there. Crows circled the thermals generated by the castle in one of the taller Colorado Rockies as winter stalked in, but even in the heat-seeing spectrum of infrared, the structure still remained hidden. With some effort, it could be found, and. . .

Wind howled through invisible spires. A gentle snow carpeted the ground and drifted lazily around the cloaked towers, never quite touching them and settling in subtle, tell-tale piles around the base of the edifice that was simultaneously there but not there. Crows circled the thermals generated by the castle in one of the taller Colorado Rockies as winter stalked in, but even in the heat-seeing spectrum of infrared, the structure still remained hidden. With some effort, it could be found, and. . .

“I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility of the human race belong to democratic ages. Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure. Here then is the wildest range open to the genius of poets, which allows them to remove their performances to a sufficient distance from the eye. Democracy shuts the past against the . . .

“I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility of the human race belong to democratic ages. Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure. Here then is the wildest range open to the genius of poets, which allows them to remove their performances to a sufficient distance from the eye. Democracy shuts the past against the . . .