Alien Welcoming Station

YOU TOO CAN BE US : A Tourist Guide for Visiting Aliens by Donald Brackett “Circumstances are difficult only for those who draw back from the tomb.” Justine, Virtue Reclaimed As usual, the ignoble Marquis was quite correct. A eulogy for ourselves then....or at least a eulogy for our history of ourselves. What a charming idea. And why not, since much of our time is up, like entropy in a suitcase, and yet we persist in tensely, and so intensely, lingering hereabouts, fragments of intergalactic unconscious energy unable to suitably retire from the fray, lingering on as if, or if only, to tell our story. Or perhaps to resurrect whatever is going to be left of the shattered story of the past twenty centuries. Yet often, rumination causes in us a humorous sadness. Musing on works after the physical, the metaphysical, induces an amusing melancholy. The meta-world just past the edge of the physical, about which much can be surmised but little can be con...