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. La-comète-est-mentionnée-dans-«-night and . Train, As you heard on the news, NASA and the Defense Department assure us there's absolutely no chance of any danger of this close shave being too close ? Aloysius's trajectory has been trebled-checked by virtual mind technology every minute of every hour since its discovery, and Earth has an all-clear » (G, 416) Elle est ensuite évoquée par le noncorpum qui sous-entend que le gardien de zoo pourrait bien mentir sur sa trajectoire pour résoudre définitivement les conflits éthiques dans lesquels il se trouve pris : « Comet Aloysius could be on a collision course with the Grand Central Station, and unless your star guest here chose to let the instruments he controls tell your scientists

. Il-s-'agit-d-'un-hommage-au-roman-d-'asimov, The Three Laws of Robotics. 34 Les écrivains sont comparés à des fous ou présentés comme des fabulateurs à plusieurs reprises dans le roman, par exemple dans « The Holy Mountain » : « I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust, ou dans « Mongolia » à la page 172, « I has no wish to leave behind me a trail of mystics, lunatics and writers