Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
You have to sound sad first of all then maybe later you can sound good.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
It would be a pity if frustrated by the price of travel we elected to become a society that never made contact that never gave SETI a fair chance.