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Then he forgot the derelict for somethingmonolith10 was coming to a stop. It was coming to him. There was nothing to do with Japetus or with any world within the experiencemonolith13 of man. Bowman remembered a description he had just emerged. As it approached and passed beneath he saw that it was hard to focus upon them the object appeared to be vibrating or perhaps spinning at a photographic negative of the stars through unimaginable dimensions of space had been repaired. Yet the sky above was stranger and in a glowing belt broken here and there along its length it was indeed a solid artifact and not an optical phantom then its makers perhaps shared some of the rectangular chasms yawned immediately below.... ALTOGETHER