Less than an hour before he... by Clifford D. Simak, an American Writer

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“Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.”

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Clifford D. Simak

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Name: Clifford D. Simak

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Aug 3, 1904

Date of Death: Apr 25, 1988

Profession: Writer

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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

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And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

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It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

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It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

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