"Be we"?

Love typos.

"Many years ago, the Lima Project sent a bunch of people to orbit around Neptune to monitor the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life. I wish it had been called the Rima Project to resonate with the doomed bird-girl in W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions (1904). That story has an explorer romance theme, too, but with a twist of genocidal rage that people tend to suppress from memory. This brings to mind Mark Twain's 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as well. Be we can't have everything."

~ M. Barrett

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