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world. [p. 137] | lose a great deal of hypnotic power in not being able to concentrate attention upon some one other As | have admitted before I'm intelligent, as contrasted with the orthodox. | haven't the aristocratic disregard of a New York curator or an Eskimo medicine-man. | have to dissipate myself in acceptance of a host of other worlds: size of the moon, some of them: one of them, at least--tremendous thing: we'll take that up later. Vast, amorphous aerial regions, to which such definite words as "worlds" and "planets" seem inapplicable. And artificial constructions that | have called "super-constructions": one of them about the size of Brooklyn, | should say, offhand. And one or more of them wheel-shaped things a goodly number of square miles in area. | think that earlier in this book, before we liberalized into embracing everything that comes along, your indignation, or indigestion would have expressed in the notion that, if this were so, astronomers would have seen these other worlds and regions and vast geometric constructions. You'd have had that notion: you'd have stopped there. But the attempt to stop is saying "enough" to the insatiable. In cosmic punctuation there are no periods: illusion of periods is incomplete view of colons and semi-colons. We can't stop with the notion that if there were such phenomena, astronomers would have seen them. Because of our experience with suppression and disregard, we suspect, before we go into the subject at all, that astronomers have seen them; that navigators and meteorologists have seen them; that individual scientists and other trained observers have seen them many times-- That it is the System that has excluded data of them.