'I cast for Ariel, pearl of fire, my only star. God's moonbeam send forth my flower. The smoke and ashes of ages past which hangs like morning mist in veils across the universe, parts in swirls and eddies, and through them, the shooting star, my angel Ariel, flies with mirrored eyes, leaving a sparkling phosphorescent trail across the universe. Down. Down he plummets towards Earth, through the great vacuum on the curve of infinity. And like a fiery rose, he descends..'
John Dee in Derek Jarman's film Jubilee (1978)
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