Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question: Where was 'here'? He shut that one down sharply. Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.

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They came, by what means he did not know, from outside, the vast abstraction that none of them had ever seen. He had a mental picture of a starry void in which…

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