“After a while Hilvar did his best to steer the conversation away from these meaningless morasses of theology in order to concentrate on the ascertainable facts.”

—  Arthur C. Clarke, book The City and the Stars

Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 13 (p. 100)

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