I just noticed the following versicle: "The procession marched, rolled, and slithered, wending higher into the hills. Soon the heavens glittered with formations of sparkling lights - brittle bright clusters and nebulae - divided by the dark stripe of the Galactic disk. (...)"
[Brightness Reef, XX, Book of the Slope, Lark, p.432 of my paperback edition] Uh? _Dark_ stripe of the Galactic disk??? Formations of clusters and nebulae??? What kind of galaxy is this? Is there any neighbouring galaxy that fits this description? Alberto Monteiro
