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teacher and I yours, so we can drop each other in the activities of the future, in activating what we have learned from each other. Thus, Adam, forgetting is easy. Remembering is the difficult part.” “Well said, Launie,” Adam countered. “I still am enslaved to you. But what is that undertone of music, and why does the room get brighter? I have learned that every new overture is but the dawn ofa new event. I would embrace you as my own, but what is this new something that sweeps over everything about us? I feel I must look into it, and you must be with me. Come, let us go out, for it is Andromeda itself that changes.” So saying, Adam took Launie by hand and hurried to the outside of the Cafe Venus with her. above him, then to the horizon all around him. There were no longer dark clouds and lightning, but white and fleecy clouds and blue azure. This sky was highlighted by a huge bright spot from which there was heat emanating, like a desert when the sun blazes. trod 14 1 “Yes, Adam,” she informed him. “Andromeda has surfaced over the man body of clouds which envelop Venus. That bright spot you see is the sun. It is large only because you are closer to the sun than you would be on earth. The heat you feel is that of the sun. We are foreign to it by birth, Adam, but you are the son of the sun. Yet, Alpha Centauri is the same to us as the sun is to you. We may understand it better than you do, but it is still your source and sustenance of life. All earth people are sons of the sun, which is in turn the son of the Father. The very beginning is traced back to the words, ‘Let there be Light; and there was Light.’ That light sustains all that lives under it. It is the beginning and the end. You are truly ca “Do you remember seeing three ships dip into the ocean of Jupiter? You marvelled at that, thinking it was a _ high v 1 marvelled Jupiter? You marvelled at that, thinking it was a high accomplishment. It may be to you and your people, but to us it is elementary. All of us would and could go into Jupiter's it was 179 THE EASE OF FORGETTING The world of Andromeda was not the same. Adam looked He looked askance at Launie. a son of the sun.