He ends not in the void, but on a bridge. The bridge between what is and what could be. He reminds us that the stars are dead. The light we see left them millions of years ago. But we are alive. For a brief, shimmering moment, we can look up and decode their ancient messages.
In the Complete Edition , Sagan revisits Plato’s allegory of the cave. Chained prisoners see only shadows on a wall, believing that to be the whole of reality. One prisoner escapes, sees the sun, and returns to tell the others. They mock him. They kill him. Cosmos - Carl Sagan -Complete Edition-
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