"Whale song is the soul of the ocean singing. In whale song, ancient lightening strikes the primordial sea, life glimmering in the chaos of the ocean; in whale song, life opens its curious and awestruck eyes, stepping out of the sea for the first time on scaled feet onto continents still alive with volcanoes; in whale song, a dinosaur empire goes extinct in a flash of cold -- time slips by, and a world of changes passes in an instant, wisdom like blades of grass sprouting in the warmth left after a glacier's passage; in whale song, civilization rises like a specter on every continent, and Atlantis crumbles into the sea in a grand cataclysm.... Naval war after naval war stains the ocean red with blood; countless empires rise and fall, each a wisp of smoke passing before one's eyes..."
-- Cixin Liu
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