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First Edition: January 2002




To Andrew and Lesley




Thanks to Carol, Sharon, and Michael, for more than usual.


Thanks to Farah Mendlesohn for reading and commenting on the draft and for historical information
about Rawliston (any mistakes are mine); to Catherine Crockett for details about the sky people; to
Rachael Lininger for help with the folk song; and to Mic Cheetham and Tim Holman for holding out for
an ending.




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 Dark Light


Don’t fear that philosophy’s an impious way—superstition’s more likely to lead folk astray.—Lucretius,
De rerum natura, Book One paraphrased by Joanna Taine




1 urbi et orbi

2 there dwelt a lass in rawley’s toun

3 customs

4 the first man on venus

5 the apothecary’s traffic