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Anywhere but Earth

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Shimmer Magazine 23

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies #156

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The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
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A cri de ceour in favor of the scientific method, and completing the Enlightenment's haphazard hold on our culture!! I CAST THEE OUT, DARK SHADOWS OF AUTHORITARIANISM AND WOO!

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Maurice Sendak
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters � sometimes very hastily � but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.� Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.� That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
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