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To him the birthmark was a sign not of what had been , but of what was yet to come : Benjamin was the future , and there was a stain upon it . From Escalante , in search of solitude and beauty , Ruess rode southeast along the Hole in the Rock Trail , which had been blazed by Mormon pioneers in 1879 . Suddenly , he says , " I heard the grandest sounds of a mother 's love I could remember . I 'm hoping that maybe , just maybe , I 'll stumble over a few crumbs of knowledge and figure out a way to circumvent the limitations of Newtonian spacecraft propulsion . He moved with unconscious confidence , a man fully content with who he was .