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the cosmologists, are now being drawn back in. The universe
may be an accident.
(d) Cosmology aside, a ship trapped in such a vortex, such a
“black,” or invisible, galaxy, drawn toward the deadly source of
the neutron star, would be unable to leave it through normal
faster-than-light drive ... because the gravitation would absorb
light, it would be impossible to build up any level of acceleration
(which would at some point not exceed the speed of light) to
permit escape. If it was possible to emerge from the field, it
could only be done by an immediate switch to tachyonic drive
without accelerative buildup ... a process which could drive the
occupant insane and which would, in any case, have no clear
destination. The black hole of the dead star is a literal vacuum in
space ... one could fall through the hole, but where, then, would
one go?

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(e) The actual process of being in the field of the dead star
might well drive one insane.
For all of these reasons Lena does not know that she has fallen
into the Galaxy Called Rome until the ship simply does so.
And she would instantly and irreparably become insane.

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The technological data having been stated, the crisis of the
story—the collapse into the Galaxy—having occurred early on, it
would now be the obligation of the writer to describe the actual
sensations involved in falling into the Black Galaxy. Since little
or nothing is known of what these sensations would be other
than that it is clear that the gravitation would suspend almost all
physical laws and might well suspend time itself, time only being
a function of physics it would be easy to lurch into a surrealistic

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mode here; Lena could see monsters slithering on the walls,
two-dimensional monsters that is, little cut-outs of her past; she
could re-enact her life in full consciousness from birth until
death; she could literally be turned inside-out anatomically and