Coffin goes EVA between the ships of the fleet:
naked creation
infinite blackness
stars beyond stars
the Milky Way
other galaxies
flocks of galaxies
light born before the Earth
enormousness
coldness
total silence
vacuum
burning, roaring, lethal energies
massive currents of gas and dust
births of new stars
two Biblical quotes
aberration
blue shift
Sol aft, bright but red-shifted
"Coffin had never understood how atheist colleagues endured free space." (p. 54)
Why shouldn't they? A guy that I was at school with totally bought into our received religion. He said that, if his beliefs were somehow disproved, then he would see no point in living. That is only because he invests the point of living in his beliefs. There are other ways.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
There may be other "ways," but not all of those ways will be good, IMO.
Ad astra! Sean
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