Eternal Flame (Song)

Try to understand, there was no other way to do it! Anything that would have destroyed in the littlest way the illusion of complete reality would have also destroyed the importance, the dignity of governing, and turned it into nothing but a mechanical game....БЂ«БЂњI understand, I understand all too well!БЂ«cried Klapaucius. БЂњYour intentions were the noblestБЂ”you only sought to construct a kingdom as lifelike as possible, so similar to a real kingdom, that no one, absolutely no one, could ever tell the difference, and in this, I am afraid, you were successful! Only hours have passed since your return, but for them, the ones imprisoned in that box, whole centuries have gone byБЂ”how many beings, how many lives wasted, and all to gratify and feed the vanity of King Excelsius!БЂ«Without another word Trurl rushed back to his ship, but saw that his friend was coming with him. When he had blasted off into space, pointed the bow between two great clusters of eternal flame and opened the throttle all the way, Klapaucius said: БЂњTrurl, youБЂ™re hopeless ...»