<link href="StyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:95978103-8d02-4633-8bbc-24e80717c84c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p> <br/></p> <p class="centre_text"><img alt="*" src="Images/hand.jpg"/></p> <p> <br/></p> <p class="centre_text"><big><big><big><b>PROLOGUE</b></big></big></big></p> <p> <br/></p> <p class="centre_text"><big><big><b>BACKGROUND NOISE</b></big></big></p> <p> <br/></p> <p> <br/></p> <p class="centre_text"><i>"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"</i></p> <p class="centre_text"><i>"Yes."</i></p> <p class="centre_text"><i>"All like ours?"</i></p> <p class="centre_text"><i>"I don't know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."</i></p> <p class="centre_text"><i>"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"</i></p> <p class="centre_text"><i>"A blighted one."</i></p> <p class="centre_text">- Thomas Hardy, <i>Tess of the D'Urbervilles</i></p> </body> </html>