But after being surprised sometimes by day while in a trance, and having long fallen into the

habit of agreeable nocturnal studies, I have composed books of prophecies, each containing one

hundred astronomical quatrains, which I want to condense somewhat obscurely. The work

comprises prophecies from today to the year 3797.

This may perturb some, when they see such a long time-span, and this will occur and be

understood in all the fullness of the Republic (4); these things will be universally understood

upon earth, my son. If you live the normal lifetime of man you will know upon your own soil,

under your native sky, how future events are to turn out.

--Nostradamus