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| 28 | 177 | I supposed that it would not be View more quotes about difficult">difficult to arrange a rheostatic mechanism to control the degree of illumination. |
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| 28 | 174 | The complex, then, that in which I was prisoner, I conjectured, might well have a clock similar to those used on Kur ships, and in the distant steel worlds, a clock doubtless once developed for use on their former world, doubtless long since destroyed in their internecine wars. |
| 28 | 175 | "We can tell the morning from the night by the illumination in the complex," said Constance. |
| 28 | 176 | "It seems to be controlled by some sort of device which regulates its intensity". |
| 28 | 177 | I supposed that it would not be difficult to arrange a rheostatic mechanism to control the degree of illumination. |
| 28 | 178 | The mechanism, I conjectured, would be analogized to the waxing and waning of light on a native world. |
| 28 | 179 | "The beasts," she said, "move mostly at night. |
| 28 | 180 | I sometimes hear their claws on the plates outside my kennel. |