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Listen patiently.
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We, who are the last men, earnestly
desire to communicate with you.
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I am speaking to you now
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from a period about two thousand million
terrestrial years in your future.
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Astronomers have made
a startling discovery,
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which assigns a speedy end to humankind.
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We can help you -
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and we need your help.
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When your writers romance
about the future,
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they imagine a progress
toward some kind of utopia
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where beings like themselves
live in unmitigated bliss.
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No such paradise existed
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through the eons
that lie between your age and mine.
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Instead, we have watched
huge fluctuations of joy and woe,
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the results of changes
not only in humanity's environment,
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but also in its fluid nature.
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Human existence has been less
like a mountain torrent
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than a great sluggish river,
seldom broken by rapids.
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Ages of dormancy,
often of stagnation,
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filled with monotonous problems and
toils of countless almost identical lives,
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were punctuated by rare bursts.
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Existence has always been precarious.
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At any stage of its career,
humanity might have been exterminated
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by some slight alteration
to its chemical environment,
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by a more than usually malignant microbe,
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by a radical change of climate,
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by the manifold effects of its own folly,
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Or by some celestial event.
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And so it was that humanity detected
a volume of non-luminous gas.
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Calculation showed that
this object and the sun
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were approaching one another
at a tangent and would collide.
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As a result of this, the sun would flare up
and expand prodigiously.
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Life would be quite impossible
on any of the planets
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save, perhaps, Neptune.
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Some of our predecessors,
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realizing that they themselves could never
live on the inhospitably remote planet,
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advocated an orgiastic celebration
of pleasure until the end.
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But at length, our earlier species
excelled itself
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in an almost unanimous resolve
to devote its remaining centuries
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to the production of a new human species
into a new world.
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Ten more species succeeded one another
on the plains of Neptune.
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We, the 18th, are the last men.
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If you could enter
this world of the last men,
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you would find some things familiar
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and much that would seem strangely
distorted and perverse.
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You would encounter creatures
recognizably human,
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yet in your view grotesque.
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Some of these fantastic beings you would
find covered with fur or mole velvet,
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revealing the underlying muscles.
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Others display brown,
yellow, or ruddy skin,
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and yet others a translucent ash-green.
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You might call us faun-like, ape-like,
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bear-like, or even elephantine.
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Yet some characteristics
are common to all of us.
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The upward-looking astronomical eye
on the crown of the skull would shock you.
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This organ, when fully extended about
a handbreadth from its bony case,
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reveals the heavens in as much detail
as your astronomical telescopes.
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Scattered about the green plains
of our colonized planet,
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you would notice many buildings.
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These buildings would seem like
geometrical mountains to you.
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In many cases, the whole fabric
is translucent or transparent.
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So that at night, with internal illumination,
it appears as an edifice of light.
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Springing from a base
twenty or more miles across,
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the star-seeking towers attain a height
where even the atmosphere is breached.
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Some of them are almost
as old as our species.
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Some are not yet completed.
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Every successive culture
has expressed itself
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in one or more of these
supreme monuments.
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In their summits work
the hosts of our astronomers:
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The essential eyes through which our community
peers across the boundless ocean of space.
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Each of us goes there,
at one time or another.
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Together, we perform
the symbolic acts
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which replaced the debased rites
of your religions long ago.
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Our children are very different beings
from the first human children.
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Their number in our world is small
in relation to our immense population.
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Yet, seeing that every one of us
is potentially immortal,
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you may wonder how we permit ourselves
to have any children at all.
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Our policy is to produce new individuals
of a higher order than ourselves.
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As a result, we need
a continuous supply of children.
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The fetus is carried for twenty years.
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Infancy lasts for about a century
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when the foundations of body and mind
are slowly laid.
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When our children attain physical adolescence,
nearly a thousand years after birth,
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they leave the safe paths of childhood
to spend another thousand years
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in one of the polar continents
known as the land of the young.
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There, our young people live
the half-primitive, half-sophisticated life
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that suits their nature.
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They love
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and hate.
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We live through all the
mistakes of thought and action
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that humankind has ever made.
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And, at last, we emerge ready
for a world of maturity.
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The designers of our species set out
to produce a new order of mentality
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in a system of distinct brains
held in telepathic unity.
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The immense difference between ourselves
and all other human species
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lies in the group-mind.
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When these individuals join
in simultaneous mental unity,
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the entire past of the species
appears as a personal memory.
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They are able to enter into past minds.
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Away from those contented to remain
on the planet's surface are the navigators
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who embody humanity's
proud mastery of interstellar space.
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The navigators mentally form
a unique class among us
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because they spend so much of their time
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in the empty regions beyond the range
of telepathic communication.
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They are a Hardy, simple,
and modest folk.
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Recently, an exploration ship returned from a
voyage into the outer tracts through space.
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Half the crew had died.
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The survivors were emaciated
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and mentally unbalanced.
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Throughout the voyage,
an unexpected alteration
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taking place in a neighboring star
was observed.
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It began to change from white to Violet
and increase in brightness.
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When the ship returned,
the crew flung open the ports
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and staggered blubbering
into the arms of the crowd.
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These poor human wrecks
have shown a phobia of the stars
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and of all that is not human.
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They dare not go out at night.
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They cannot find companionship.
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They cling piteously
to the sweets of individual life,
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a mere defense against reality.
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Listen patiently.
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The navigators have made
a startling discovery.
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It is something unprecedented:
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A normal star suffering from a fantastic
acceleration of its vital process.
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We hoped that our sun might prove
too distant to be seriously influenced,
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but this hope had to be abandoned.
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Within thirty thousand years,
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life will be impossible anywhere
within a vast radius of the sun...
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So vast a radius
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that it is quite impossible to propel
our planet away fast enough to escape.
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The discovery of this doom
kindled in us unfamiliar emotions.
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Outwardly, everyone behaved
with perfect Serenity,
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but inwardly, every mind was in turmoil
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as we faced the sudden destruction
of our world.
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There was nothing left for us to do
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but to crowd as much as possible
into our remaining life
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and meet our end in the noblest manner.
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And there again came upon us
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the rare experience
of a unified mind among the species.
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For a whole year,
every individual entered a trance
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in which we resolved
many ancient mysteries.
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And in consequence of this,
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we found ourselves faced with two tasks
that had not yet been contemplated.
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First, we have set about the forlorn task
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of disseminating the seeds of
a new humanity among the stars.
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We have devised minute
electromagnetic wave-systems
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individually capable of sailing forward toward
the most promising regions of the galaxy.
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These units are so cunningly interrelated
that they combine to form spores of life.
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We shall project these particles
in immense quantities.
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But the chance that any of them will survive
to find a suitable environment is small.
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It is clear to us that the work
will not be completed
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until the disintegration
of our community has begun.
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The second task that occupies us
relates to the past.
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We need your help.
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We have long been able to enter and
participate in the experiences of past minds
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as passive spectators.
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But recently, we have discovered
the power of influencing the past.
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This may seem to be an impossibility.
A past event is what it is.
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But, in certain cases,
some feature of a past event
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may depend on an event in the far future.
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In certain rare cases,
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mental events far separated in time
determine one another directly.
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The past can help us learn once again
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that supreme achievement
of the human spirit:
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The loyalty to the forces of life
embattled against death.
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But what is it that we seek
to contribute to the past?
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We want to help the past
make the best of itself.
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We seek to direct the attention
of past individuals to truths,
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which would otherwise be overlooked.
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Those of us who still care
for the life of the mind
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are tempted to regret that humankind
did not choose decent suicide
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before the degeneration began.
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But this could not be.
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The mission we undertook
had to be completed.
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This is the last office of humanity.
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I am speaking to you now
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from a period about two thousand million
terrestrial years in your future.
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It has become very difficult to reach you,
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And still more difficult to speak to you.
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Some centuries have now passed
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since the sun began to show
the first symptoms of disintegration:
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Namely a slight change of color
toward the blue,
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followed by a definite increase
of brightness and heat.
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The deluge of solar radiation has had
a disastrous effect on the human organism.
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We are the wreckage of our former selves.
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The normal power of telepathic
communication is now so unreliable
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that we have been compelled to fall back upon
the archaic practice of vocal symbolism.
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Away from the sun's destructive heat,
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we are forcing our planet outward from
its old orbit in an ever-widening spiral.
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But we have not been able to prevent the
climate from becoming more and more deadly,
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even at the poles where we have migrated.
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The intervening regions
have all been deserted.
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Evaporation of the oceans has thrown
the whole atmosphere into tumult.
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Now and again, we meet together,
the few that prevail,
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to hearten ourselves
with one another's presence.
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We can only sit in silence,
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groping for consolation and for strength.
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Sometimes, the spoken word
flickers between us,
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shedding a brief light but little warmth.
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But listen patiently.
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This is not our last word.
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We, the last men, still have something
in us left from the time that is past.
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The stars have their beginnings
and their ends.
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For a few moments,
somewhere in between,
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a few, very few,
may support thought.
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The universal end comes in due course.
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After the end,
events unknowable will continue
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in a time much longer than that which
will have passed since the beginning.
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The whole duration of humanity,
its evolution and many successive species,
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is but a flash
in the lifetime of the cosmos.
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Looking at the heavens and at the Violet
splendor that seeks to destroy us,
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we are filled with awe and pity:
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Awe for the inconceivable potential
of this bright host
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And pity for its self-thwarting effort
to supplant the universal spirit.
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We find ourselves filled,
in spite of everything,
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with a triumphant love of our fate.
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Great are the stars,
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And humankind is of no account to them.
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But humankind is a fair spirit,
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Whom a star conceived
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and a star kills.
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