We'll continue our journey towards the house as the book goes on, but the book draws us away from contact; our rendezvous with this presence or absence is not to happen yet. This image draws us back to the long journey of the dots across the sky. In a sense, this is an image that will drag us back to the problems of communication and insignificance I set up earlier.

These dots will turn out to be representations of radio waves as they travel through the cosmos: their meaning, if they have any, is the topic of radio astronomy, or in human terms, of communication. Radio thus means both the cosic and the personal, and these dots are their messenger. It is as often the case that they will depend on their context as their individual meanings however…