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The stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward saturn. in her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling stones . . . to saturn . . . to uranus, to pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the universe.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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The Stone Trembled And Threw Herself Outward

Robert A. Heinlein
The stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward saturn. in her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling stones . . . to saturn . . . to uranus, to pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the universe.
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