The Call to an Ideal Is the Call to a Sequence of Deaths and Rebirths

In the first sentence of this story, you see these things echoed in the strangest places. The alimators are at pains to show you that it's a leather bound book with gilt lettering. It's something that represents a transcendent ideal, and that makes it manifest to you if you're iet enough to listen. So strangely, right? And people do that. They wish upon a star. But they don't know why. Why? You wish upon a star? Wha, what in the world does that mean? It means you lift your eyes to the heavens and make a pact with the transcendent,. Then you're and then what your heart's desire will...