Ivar And The Galaxy

Ivar Frederiksen thinks:

"...what we've explored is one atom off outer skin of one dustmote galaxy...."
-Poul Anderson, The Day Of Their Return IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 74-238 AT 16, p. 200.

Thus, Ivar joins our "On The Edge Of One Spiral Arm" gang. See here. He is the second to compare the galaxy to a dust-mote. Although repetition has made the thought recognizable, Anderson usually manages to express it sufficiently differently.

There is an Isaac Asimov novel called The Stars Like Dust and a Brian Aldiss collection called Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand. Just think about the meanings of those phrases.