CHAPTER 4
Prime Numbers
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary
has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours to civilize
civilization and Christianize Christendom?
-Herman Melville
White Jacket (1850)
Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.
-Alfred DeVigny
La Mort du Loup
(1864)
The cold black vacuum had been left behind. The pulses were
now approaching an ordinary yellow dwarf star and had
already begun spilling over the retinue of worlds in this
obscure system. They h
