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"The ship-spotters are at least appropriately alive to some of the most astonishing aspects of our time. They know what it is about our world that would detain a Martian or a child. They take pleasure in sensing their smallness and ignorance next to the expansive intelligence of the modern collective mind... they enter into a state of silent, satisfied wonder, like pilgrims before the buttresses of Chartres."