Colonies of Heaven

The Monastery - "that singular place, from which, as from the summit of a lofty mountain, we perceive, on one side, the abyss in which we are, and on the other, the abyss wherein we are to be; it is a narrow and misty boundary that separates two worlds, where the unfeebled ray of life commingles with the uncertain ray of death."
- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'