Words by Angélique Guderian to Richard Vorhees:
 
 
 
 
You have always been alone, always self-centred and fearful of opening yourself to other persons, for to do so is to risk rejection and pain. But it is a risk we are born to take, we humans. We cannot live alone, cannot find happiness or peace alone, cannot love alone. The person alone must always be fleeing, always searching. He flees from the loneliness without end. He searches, whether he will or not, for another who will fill his emptiness . . .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
An excerpt (Chapter 1 of Part III - The Alliance) from Julian May's The Many-Coloured Land, and very reflective of how it can feel to us outside of fiction, and a posthumous thank you for the decades of pleasure I have found on re-reading your works.