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| | Books | Heartless voids and immensities |
 | | Ultima Thule, the end of the world, the frozen wilderness, its scale and emptiness inimical to the limited human imagination and, both as a thought and, in the event of encountering it, a source of wordless terror. |
 | | She flies to the furthest north to get to the promisingly forbidden US Thule Air Base at 80 N. Her determination was admirable, but caused this reader some anxiety, fearing that she might actually find what she was looking for. |
 | | The Inuits who settled at the place founded by Rasmussen, which he called Thule, were moved further north in the Cold War by the US military, who needed a base from which they might conveniently bomb Russia. |
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