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THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
a few exotic and single case reports that I tend to be a little
cautious about until I get a lot more corroborative.
Despite this apparent variety of extraterrestrials, the UFO abduction
syndrome portrays, it seems to me, a banal Universe. The
form of the supposed aliens is marked by the failure of the
imagination and a preoccupation with human concerns. Not a
single being presented in all these accounts is as astonishing as a
cockatoo would be if you had never before beheld a bird. Any
protozoology or bacteriology or mycology textbook is filled with
wonders that far outshine the most exotic descriptions of the alien
abductionists. The believers take the common elements in their
stories as tokens of verisimilitude, rather than as evidence that
they have contrived their stories out of a shared culture and
biology.
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