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The main persons
* Marvin - a ten year old boy
* his father
Outline of contents
Being ten year old, Marvin is taken \"outside\" by his father for the fist time, since the entire mankind has to live subterranean after an atomic war. Though he has already seen the world on photographs and on TV, he is amazed by the stars, the landscape and the mountains, shining silver because of their radioactive pollution. \"Across a quarter of a million miles of space, the glow of dying atoms is still visible, a perennial reminder of the ruinous past.\"
Only now the father begins to speak, he tells his son the story that he had heared so often before, but never really meant anything to him, for it was impossible for him to picture life on the planet, nor could he understand the life-destroying violence that has forced the few survivors to build up a colony under the Earth\'s surface, carrying in their hands the future of the race. Marvin understands that he himself will never be able to step outside and breath real air, but there is hope that his children\'s children will.
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