“Toward the star trembling pale on the horizon
He pressed, leaping from one dark foothold to another. . . .
He ran, he flew, he cried out: Golden star!
Brother! Wait for me! I am coming! Do not die yet!
Do not leave me alone. . . .”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885), from La fin de Satan, “Satan’s End”. Found in The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History by Jeffrey Burton Russell, 1988.