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The faceted disks wavered; turned upward; the wheel began to whirl faster faster Up from that flaming circle, out into the sky leaped a thick, pale green column of intensest light. With prodigious speed, as compact as water, CONCENTRATE, it struck straight out toward the face of the sun. It thrust up with the speed of light the speed of light?
Part of the material of it has fallen down deep crevasses and part has been torn and worn from the glacier's bed and banks. While the stones of the surface moraines remain as angular as when they lodged on the ice, many of those of the ground moraine have been blunted on the edges and faceted and scratched by being ground against one another and the rocky bed.
On the ordered plains were traced the hieroglyphs of the faceted world. And on all Earth, Goodwin, there was no green life, no city, no trace of man. On this Earth that had been ours were only These. "Visioning!" he said. "Don't think that I accept them in their entirety.
In the patterns was an appalling harmony as though all the laws from those which guide the atom to those which direct the cosmos were there resolved into completeness totalled. "The faceted world was like a cosmic abacist, tallying as it marched the errors of the infinite. "The patterned symbols constantly changed form. I drew nearer the symbols were alive. They were, in untold numbers These!"
Leaping, tossing, spiraling, foaming back upon itself, making its own shadows and mirroring in an infinitely faceted glass the sunlight, it changed so constantly it was impossible to grasp even a fraction of its mutations. But Slafe evidently did not share my blessed relief, for he turned his camera back to catch every last glimpse of the solid green I was so happy to leave behind.
What can be the psychology of a creature possessing such a powerful digestive organism combined with such a feeble set of senses? A vain wish has often come to me in my dreams; it is to be able to think, for a few minutes, with the crude brain of my Dog, to see the world with the faceted eyes of a Gnat. How things would change in appearance!
Let us not despise the gem because it has been broken to fragments, obscured by silt and mud. Still less let us fancy that one least fragment of it is not more precious than the most brilliant paste jewel of our own compounding, though it be polished and faceted never so completely.
Gasping, shaken, weak, I stood within the faceted oval chamber; arm still about the handmaiden's white shoulder; Larry's hand still clutching her girdle. The roaring, impalpable gale from the cosmos was retreating to the outposts of space was still; the intense, streaming, flooding radiance lessened died. "Now have you beheld," said Lakla, "and well you trod the road.
When she looked up again, her cheeks had a tinge of colour in them; her eyes shone like faceted jewels; her smile was radiant and infectious. With no regard for appearances, she buttoned the note in the bosom of her dress. "Now we will look for the purse," she said. "But come in, Mr. Guest you are still standing at the door. I shall think you are offended with me.
This latter is provided above with two slender six-jointed antennae, two very large faceted eyes at the side, and three ocelli forming a triangle. The last four segments, of decreasing breadth, are retractile beneath the carapax, as is also the broad plume that terminates them, and which is formed of three short, transparent, and elegantly ciliated bristles.
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