Cities rising and falling before our eyes - time lapse imagery
Garrett presents the image of an open plain in which many cities rise and fall, such as would happen over many centuries. The main character is permitted to watch, from a distance, as cities spring into being, become wealthy and ostentatious and are destroyed by marauding hordes… . The narrator then sees multiple cities rising on the same distant plain, only to attack one another. The surviving city possessed a “great tower” and “… was the most beautiful one and I had almost prayed that it should have the victory, for I hated to see it fall.”