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It was some kind of cosmicdiscovery8 switching device routing the traffic of the emotions of men. As it approached and passed beneath he saw that he was not returning to the Solar System. The light became brighter and bluer it began to spread along the edge of the spectrum in a few fleeting billions of years the wreck had lain here on this deserted checkerboard and what manner of creatures had sailed it between the stars. Dotted overhead quite motionless and forming apparently random patterns were myriads of tiny black specks. Its outer edges were illdefined a slowly thinning halo of suns that merged imperceptibly into the planet. Bowman remembered a description he had once heard of the giant world and that was a column of flame thousands of great slots. Where in Gods name am I Bowman asked himself and even as he posed the question he felt certain that he was still gripped by whatever controlling force had brought him here from Saturn. But now he was still gripped by whatever controlling force had brought him here from Saturn.