Chapter 26

Strange and wonderful as they then seemed, I have since realized that there were many simpler-seeming things around me which are less easily explicable. Knowing, as we do, that light travels through space, bearing the vision of that which was, to the infinite distances, and that we ourselves can behold the stars of earlier millenniums in positions which they have long ceased to occupy, it is not difficult to understand that the Dwellers must have discovered a process by which such visions could be deflected or refl…