Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventuall…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2007). The Sirens of Titan, p.1, Dial Press
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