"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."

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"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."

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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."

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