Her er de to første avsnittene i The Unicorn Road;
To lose a small boy in a world so wide is an easy thing. I have learned that now, just as I have learned the names of places unimagined by me then, names that strike my ear like strange verses. Socotra, Kinzai, Samarkand. Malabar, Nicobar, Pem.
I had not thought this Earth of ours so large, nor Christendom so small. I had thought the lands beyond our maps, no wider than the beading edge that runs around Christ's table. Had I known the truth, that the wild plains and forests of the heathen reach so far and so unforgivingly, I should not have let him go. I should not have let him go.
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