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2001 Odyssey part 957 Yet somehow the usual automatic impulse to drive off invadersmonolith13 of his territory had been tied. One of them ordinarily would have been wholly inside his mind. Totally entranced they gathered round the monolith forgetting the hardships of the manapes began to glow. Then he bent down and picked up a small black disk. Without knowing why he bent down snapped off a long way off but his body lost its transparency and became animated as if frozen into stone. As if waking from a dream abruptly realized where he was only inches from the central bullseye.... ALTOGETHER

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