O mio babbino caro

by Dr. Robert de Cyprus

The shrewd young daughter of a dead investor comes home to find her family gone. A letter by her mother instructs her to proceed down to the docks, where a boat awaits her.

1. Title Page

O mio babbino caro*

Un roman**

By a sick dog

Dedicated to those who still dare to think and dream

"There are no supreme saviours
Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune.
Producers, let us save ourselves
Decree the common welfare
That the thief might bear his throat,
That the spirit be pulled from its prison
Let us fan the forge ourselves
And strike the iron while it is hot!"

Eugène Pottier

"The surest way to corrupt a youth

is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem

those who think alike than

those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before…
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token…"

Edgar Allan Poe

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways.

The point, however, is to change it."

Karl Marx

"She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love"

William Wordsworth

"No Gods or Kings,

Only man."

Andrew Ryan