composition - assisted reconstructions of dead or deleted paladins and sages, magnates and philosophers, walked by night the boulevards of the aurelian palace - city, arm - in - arm with extrapolated demigoddesses from imagined superhuman futures, or languid - eyed lamia from morbid unrealized alternatives, and strolled or danced among the monuments and energy sculptures, fountains, dream fixtures, and phantasms, all beneath a silver city 