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BARGELLO: Why? There’s nothing behind me. There can’t be,
because I’m outside the biggest thing there is. I think so, anyway.
(slowly turns, looks) Oh, no! What are those tiny bits of light out there?

MINIMAX: Those are other galaxies. We are just on the edge of one
of them.

BARGELLO: Now, hold on a moment, Minimax. This is starting to
sound familiar. What is bigger than a galaxy?

MINIMAX: A cluster of galaxies.

BARGELLO: And what’s beyond all the clusters of galaxies?

MINIMAX: Quasars. And that’s the outer limit, as far as I know.

BARGELLO: Great! (gets in) Point out the nearest quasar, and we’ll
zip right out there!

MINIMAX: It’s hard to see from here, but I have a built-in telescope.
Okay, shine the light this way. (points; light goes on; effects)

BARGELLO: (turns off light; barrier comes down) Well, this is it. Right,
Minimax?

MINIMAX: I don’t know, Great Bargello. You are the leader,
remember?

BARGELLO: I never forget it! And here is where I make myself
even more famous. I can see the headlines when I return with this
photo: “Bargello Expedition Makes Big Discovery.” Come on, let’s
do our work and get going: I’m hungry!

MINIMAX: (both get out, go through barrier) Well, is this the edge of the
Universe, the biggest thing there is?

BARGELLO: Of course! Everything is behind us. I can’t see any
more little specks of light out there: can you?

MINIMAX: No, not immediately. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t
any. And even if we never saw any more stars out there, we still
couldn’t take the picture.