Text Vast is the kingdom of dust Unlike terrestrial kingdoms it knows no limits No ocean marks its boundaries No mountains hem it in No parallels of latitude and longitude define its boundless areas nor can the farthermost stars in the infinitudes of spac

Vast is the kingdom of dust! Unlike terrestrial kingdoms, it knows no limits. No ocean marks its boundaries. No mountains hem it in. No parallels of latitude and longitude define its boundless areas, nor can the farthermost stars in the infinitudes of space serve other than as a twinkling outpost of a realm as vast as the universe itself. —J. Gordon Ogden, The Kingdom of Dust