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Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude Shuntaro TanikawaHuman beings on this small orbsleep, waken and work, and sometimeswish for friends on Mars.I've no notionwhat Martians do on their small orb(neririing or kiruruing or hararaing).But sometimes they like to have friends on Earth.No doubt about that.Universal grabvitation is the power of solitudespulling each other.Because the universe is distorted,we all seek for one another.Because the universe goes on expanding,we are all uneasy.With the chill of two billion light-years of solitude,I suddenly sneezed.(Translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura)