 What was an indicator that Adam, or Ha-Adamah, was only playing a part while communicating with the crew?
Naturally they did not get results at once, nor did they expect to; it required a fine adjustment. But they were disappointed that they found nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. As though there were but one city, if that is its form. There was one more test to run, one very tricky and difficult of analysis, that with the Extraordinary Perception Locator. But this might be so varied or so unfamiliar that often both the machine and the designer of it were puzzled as to how to read the results. But when the Locator had refused to read Positive when turned on the inventor himself, bad blood developed between machine and man. It was for this reason that Glaser used that model no more, but built others more amenable. On Earth it had read Positive on a number of crack-pots, including Waxey Sax, a jazz tootler who could not even read music. He then narrowed to a smaller area (apparently one individual, though this could not be certain) and got very definite action. Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever produces: the single orange light. "Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. And those two ... why, they could well be Earth-people. Timidity has never been an efficacious tool with us." There was a man and a woman, and they were clothed either in very bright garments or in no garments at all, but only in a very bright light.
 He told the Old Serpent that he needed to write him new lines.
 His eruption of laughter once the crew had left.  He told the Old Serpent that he needed to write him new lines.  His past involvement with show business.  He recalled his true name after the crew had left.