"They went on,
and in the east the sun threw pale strips of light,
which then took on a thicker hue like blood,
oozing in sudden waves that widened in layers,
and where the earth slipped into the sky, at the edge of creation,
the crown of the sun sprang out of nothingness,
like a bullet from a great red phallus,
until it had crossed the hidden edge and was crouched and vibrant
and malevolent behind them."