It is unimaginable that they would come, Lena and the dead, from the heart of the galaxy called Rome to tenant Ridgefield Park, New Jersey... but more unimaginable still that from all the Ridgefield Parks of our time we will come and assemble and build the great engines which will take us to the stars and some of the stars will bring us death and some bring life and some will bring nothing at all but the engines will go on and on and so--after a fashion, in our fashion--will we.