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| 23 | 189 | In it I saw the rifle which had been brought from View more quotes about earth">Earth. |
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| 23 | 186 | Outside the room, mounted in the wall of the cylinder of Cernus, was a tarn perch. |
| 23 | 187 | I saw, in the distance, something large on the back of a great tarn, humped, shaggy. |
| 23 | 188 | I turned back and looked into the room. |
| 23 | 189 | In it I saw the rifle which had been brought from Earth. |
| 23 | 190 | About the walls of the room there was much delicate apparatus, reminding me somewhat of instrumentation I had seen in the Nest long ago; complex paneling, wires, disks; the dials, I noted, were adopted for a visually oriented organism, needles quivering against a metric of spaces; a cone was flashing on and off in the instrumentation; I lifted a matching cone from its placement on a horizontal panel; putting the cone to my ear I heard a splattering of signals of varying pitch; they came more and more frequently, and at greater and greater intensity; then, to my amazement, the signals stopped; there was a pause; then there came a strange sound, which could have been uttered by no human throat, but articulate, repeated again and again. |
| 23 | 191 | I put the cone down. |
| 23 | 192 | The sound continued. |