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Question
How is life in the planet Venus described?
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Solution
It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this is how life on the planet Venus described.
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