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"Up from Earth's center through the Seventh Gate / I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate. " / -- Omar Khayyam.
My dream of the skull-face was borne over that usually uncrossable gap that lies between hashish enchantment and humdrum reality. I sat cross-legged on a mat in Yun Shatu's Temple of Dreams and gathered the fading forces of my decaying brain to the task of remembering events and faces.