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"Book 4.

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We wonder at bees'
ability to communicate.

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We observe the hive, which
seems, in turn, to survey us

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from another world,
as if the inhabitants

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of Venus gazed down upon us.

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Nowadays, we accept bees do not
move in the same world as us.

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Contemporary science
itemizes their algorithms

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and translates the spirit
of the hive into instinct.

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Reasoned analysis
predicts the collapse

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of their cooperative
societies is imminent.

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We share the bees'
disastrous forecast.

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Space preserves the indelible
trace of the bees' graven print

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as a capsule of light.

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But what of prophecy now
and the madness of honey?

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When and how do we go
beyond what we know?

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Who is the seer?

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Who is the stranger
adrift in the house?

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Whose head beat-beat-beats
against the windowpane?

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Ours is the oracle that sets
off a buzz in our pocket.

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Ours the speaker who
prophesies, instructing

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our movements in a monotonous
voice from the dashboard.

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Ours the antenna that
dips into the data stream

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for reassurance.

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Our oracles broadcast
from arboreal masts hung

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with rich clusters of antenna.

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Through that first darkness,
which is always with us,

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to the distant vessels that
turn in strict circles,

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like the loyal geese that
are said to wheel around

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and around the lost Atlantis.

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Satellites tune us to the
honeydew of invisible signals,

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delivering the influx of
information, skyfallen words,

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and the rush of
ceaseless communication.

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Just as the bees change
their flight path

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with each new tree that comes
into bloom, so the nav stars

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blink, blink, blink
in connective silence,

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swimming the eccentric lines
of their birdcage orbits.

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The vespertinal vessels
hide and reveal themselves

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as they reveal and hide
the globe's surface.

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The 12 helical antennae
broadcast a cosmic signal band

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in a broad cone, modulating the
digits of mass communication

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in a cipher tide of binary code.

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The oracle is a
complex instrument,

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enforcing a totalizing
knowledge, an earthly truth

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that we may access not by
right, only as a privilege.

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The temple at Delphi is twinned
with Schriever Air Force

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Base, Denver, one signal
designated for civilian use,

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a more accurate encryption
controlled by the US military,

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masters of truth.

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SPS, I know where I am.

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PPS, we know where you are.

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Rockets propel us
far beyond ourselves

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to spy the planet
through a vacuum

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and plot the globe with
constant precision.

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Satellites triangulate the
mesh of their optimal positions

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by ephemeris and the
continuous recalculations

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of atomic clocks,
beaming their blanket

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of signals over the entire
disk of the listening Earth."