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Cosmos

From the August/September 1997 Print Edition

Before I die I’d like to understand this world. (I grow ambitious as I read my words.) While mind remains I want to trace the moral circuit that lights the star-laced universe, that golden thread with a core of steel drawn taut through time to the far frontier of mortal reach, seeking the . . . . Continue Reading »