Death is a friend and a deliverer. 18 A little hill in a low place thinks itself a great mountain. 19 Men are gnomes condemned to forced toils in the kingdom of darkness (or ignorance). 20 We are the true troglodytes, cave-dwellers, though we call our cavern the world. 21 Living for ages in the night-realm, we dream that our darkness is full day. 22 All life is but a perpetual promise; an engageme