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Story behind the Story...

I really liked the idea of these two pilots dancing around each other for hundreds of years, with orbits than only occasionally touched. I liked the vision of humanity changing in (what seemed to the narrator) an instant (or slightly more), from a single race of man to alien in both form and thought.

Neat story.

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Here's a thought that keeps reoccurring to me:

From Ten Winks to Forever:

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Penso, take it from me: when you get back home, settle down and try to fit in -- no matter how much it costs you. If you keep on winking, you'll eventually get so dissociated from everything you knew that your only choice will be to keep going. Quit while you can
Robert Frost's Birches:

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I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.


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