Contact : a novel : draft

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Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 2 of Contact : a novel : draft Hrrt Draft CÏ Contact CHAPTER ONE aajvpi 1984 Page 11 TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBERS By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial It was the size of a world But it was...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 3 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 12 Leaving the monkeys 3he was still perehed on her faUiurs ahouldops ifhey turned a corner and came upon a great spindlylegged longnecked dappled beast with tiny horns...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 4 of Contact : a novel : draft sf p s 20 August 1984 CONTACT y When she was two years old she would 11ft her hands to her father and say very sweetly Dada up1 vprs iunrïf mf f...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 5 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 13 She let herself into the spare room a little guiltily The old Motorola radio was on the shelf where she remembered it It was very big and...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 6 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 14 of its receptacle There was a metallic square inside the bulb attached to tiny wires The electricity runs along the wires she thought vaguely But first it...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 7 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 15 to plug it in for it to work Could you make a kind of map showing how the electricity runs through the radio Could you take it...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 8 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 16 was an unspoken question lingering at the edge of her consciousness toutP Could you teach the alphabet to the ants What 4oants know anyway a4iry4 j Cl...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 9 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 17 and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court o44fter a X moments the considerationdecided on the latter Twains hero had bee n conked on the head and...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 10 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 18 two vertical pillars with a crossbar at top t if you measured the circumference of a circle and then divided it by the diameter of the circle...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 11 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 19 r 41 b ÎCycLmJl After school she cnfc to the University library to look at books on mathematics As nearly as she could figure out from what...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 12 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 110 the geometry of every circle in the world was connected with this jLtfW Caitfi Cirlt le itAr Vtc i series of fractions She was determined to learn...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 13 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 111 She saw through John Staughton from the very first How her f ê ifr i o ê u 4 s mother could even contemplate marrying him ospoçially...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 14 of Contact : a novel : draft 4 I V 23 April 1984 Page 112 distant she had been exiled to the house of a tyrant She longed to escape Bridgeport 4 I fnyS Camelot s4 he vÉÍV

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

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Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 16 of Contact : a novel : draft Contact CHAPTER TWO 3frprt1r4r984 first Draft Page 21 TTTct t INCOHERENT LIGHT r Surrounding the bluewhite star in its equatorial plane was a vast ring of orbiting debris rocks and ice metals...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 17 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 22 cosmos Others were stimulated to the most extravagant flights of fancy At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 18 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 Apri1 1984 Page 23 could almost convince herself that she could see whntwn hoppen i no y Se i Jwca A swirl of yellow fog would suddenly clear and an enormous...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 19 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 24 wUn an encrypted message into clear f you didnt know the substitution convention was much harder You could have the machine run p e slt Sub ii4iz...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 20 of Contact : a novel : draft Kçpvc cm rv e_7 C KsTiN Tf age25 r7 ie more outraged she became The Preside7rrânïïtTTeXP7rgress were1 lying and killing she thought to herself and almost everyone else was mutely assenting The...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 21 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984________ VJa7Kana fi respectable Protestant denominations unsullied by oxcbooivo ev ic proselytizing There were a few high school students a number of adults mainlywomen and the instructqiytha Ministers jjfa Ell...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 22 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 eiKS Page 27 teacher blushed deeply and asked El He not to raise unseemly questions The answer dawned on El He at that moment When they came to the...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 23 of Contact : a novel : draft 6 January 1985 CONTACT She was lying on her bed It was a hot summers night Elvis was singing One night with you thats what Im beggin for r vS a 7...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 24 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 28 like a million kids probably took this test Someone had to be 1ucky Cambridge Massachusetts seemed far enough away to evado John Vt o m Staughtons Influence...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 25 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 January 19 CONTACT NOVEL IDEA FILE She found it difficult to discuss physics much less debate it with her principally male classmates At first they bad a kind of selective Inattention...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 26 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 January 1984 CONTACT NOVEL IDEA FILE pge 2 would bocomo occa38im11y HdLü UUL never embittered After Frederick her expectations in men were only ac high aa she daH4 but she never...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 27 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 29 increasing enthusiasm But she found she was intimidating her wouldbe lovers Her relationships tended to last a few months at most The alternative seemed to be to...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 28 of Contact : a novel : draft Most women she thought were somewhere in the middle seU fjpt to reconcile their passions by their conociouoly JrU rfr LJ we parcaived longterm intercoms Perhaps there was occasional C 9 WYlUY...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 29 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 210 4 The Idea of so massive a greenhouse effect seemed unlikely and flnt SWt Vw lei Istl somehow distasteful But when the Venera spacecraft landed and 1n...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 30 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 211 The atmosphere of patient searchingand the occasional rewards of u discovery were agreeable to her They were trying to measure how the number of distant extragalactic radio...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 31 of Contact : a novel : draft Ksw 17 December 1984 CONTACT 5 Atf Ze O k íi s ke 7cifP frY i P fson cK X 7ô 1 v M f S1 A wv â va rV ec...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 32 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 212 si ÇÇi E icw1 VVn 0 1 0 2um I ide show of Derhaps hundred images of Dr ski ny in CuluuiUu w 4Jtahor the high Skiiaa...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 33 of Contact : a novel : draft 1 February 1985 MISC CONTACT INSERTS INSERT P FOR PAGE 211 but was at heart one of those men one finds at the top of every profession who are In a constant...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 34 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 213 was fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence Each faculty member 1t seemed was allowed one foible had hang gliding and had life on other worlds Others...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 35 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 214 V Ufíírt r 0ÍAT would emphasize how we are trapped by our culture and our biology how limited we are in imagining creatures or civilizations fundamentally differenipfoom...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 36 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 215 As a topic for her doctoral thesis she chose with the concurrence of the faculty the development of an improvement in the sensitive receivers employed on radio...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 37 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 216 f telescopes and detected at entirely new frequencies what astronomers call the three degree black body background radiation the remnant 1n the radio spectrum of the immense...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 38 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 117 but couldnt afford them It was a little bit like the scientist who first discovered the biochemical pathway of green plant photosynthesis and forever after wore a...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 39 of Contact : a novel : draft 23 April 1984 Page 118 about quasars or pulsars Generally speaking they had not dreamed of the stars in thoi childhood They were too busy repairing the carburetor in the family car...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

Image 40 of Contact : a novel : draft 93 April 1Qd _____ might she thought be capable of a hundred megawatts or more If they were intentionally transmitting to the Earth with a telescope as powerful as Arecibo but with...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1984-04

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