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His lifeline snapped off, an astronaut was roaming in the darkness. He happened to make a haphazard landing on a planet. There were creatures there that had evolved in their own way. Their endeavor to get across to each other failed in vain, and the minutes of his life are numbered almost to the null, at the same time his consciousness fading, he sensed there appeared "something" enormous in the depth of his mind's eye.

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This story depicts the friability of communication we often encounter in our daily life. We should ask ourselves; Did "the field of communication, ×、○、△、□ around this moribund astronaut" really exist, or else who is it that cannot communicate to the last? The enormous being that appears at the climactic end slowly nictitates as if suggesting the whole be the projection of our inner world.

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