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It was a frightening thought. Baley still feared the open. But he
no longer feared the fear! It was not something to run from, that fear,
but something to fight.
Baley felt as though a touch of madness had come over him.
From the very first the open had had its weird attraction over him;
from the time in the ground-car when he had tricked Daneel in order
to have the top lowered so that he might stand up in the open air.
He had failed to understand then. Daneel thought he was being
perverse. Baley himself thought he was facing the open out of
professional necessity, to solve a crime. Only on that last evening on
Solaria, with the curtain tearing away from the window, did he realize
his need to face the open for the open's own sake; for its attraction
and its promise of freedom.
There must be millions on Earth who would feel that same urge,
if the open were only brought to their attention, if they could be made
to take the first step.
He looked about.
The Expressway was speeding on. All about him was artificial
light and huge banks of apartments gliding backward and flashing
signs and store windows and factories and lights and noise and
crowds and more noise and people and people and people. .
It was all he had loved, all he had hated and feared to leave, all
he had thought he longed for on Solaria.
And it was all strange to him.
He couldn't make himself fit back in.
He had gone out to solve a murder and something had
happened to him.
He had told Minnim the Cities were wombs, and so they were.
And what was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man?
He must be born. He must leave the womb. And once left, it could not
be re-entered.
Baley had left the City and could not re-enter. The City was no
longer his; the Caves of Steel were alien. This had to be. And it would
be so for others and Earth would be born again and reach outward.
His heart beat madly and the noise of life about him sank to an
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unheard murmur.
He remembered his dream on Solaria and he understood it at
last. He lifted his head and he could see through all the steel and
concrete and humanity above him. He could see the beacon set in
space to lure men outward. He could see it shining down. The naked
sun!
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