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| 35 | 87 | "The View more quotes about islands">islands are commonly guided by, and moved by, gentle means," said Sakim, "say, noise, which it finds aversive, light taps on its body, a soft thrusting against its bulk, and such". |
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| 35 | 84 | Now I understand that that was an illusion, for the island was moving, too, indeed, moving in the other direction". |
| 35 | 85 | "Not only moving, but, I gather, moving rapidly," said Sakim. |
| 35 | 86 | "I think so," I said. |
| 35 | 87 | "The islands are commonly guided by, and moved by, gentle means," said Sakim, "say, noise, which it finds aversive, light taps on its body, a soft thrusting against its bulk, and such". |
| 35 | 88 | "But the movement produced," I said, "tends to be gradual". |
| 35 | 89 | "It can take a day to move a living island a pasang," said Sakim. |
| 35 | 90 | "How then could the brigand island, if that is what it is, an island manned by brigands, move so quickly?" "By the application of means less gentle," said Sakim, "gouging, wounding, exacerbating wounds, applying hot irons, torches, and such". |