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The texts of these orders, instructions, directives or memoranda consisted of mute combinations of letters and numbers, joined by hyphens or separated by virgules. Through the upper portion of the windows Dewforth could just make out the horizon and a narrow strip of darkening sky, which were silent and which demanded nothing of him.
FOREIGN. Maestricht beds and Faxoe chalk. BRITISH. Sands of Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe. FOREIGN. Neocomian of Neufchatel, and Hils conglomerate of North Germany. BRITISH. Upper Purbeck beds, fresh-water. FOREIGN. Marnes a gryphees virgules of Argonne. BRITISH. Coral rag of Berkshire, Wilts, and Yorkshire. FOREIGN. Nerinaean limestone of the Jura. BRITISH. Cornbrash and forest marble.
He knew that the finished products were small, heavy and very complicated. Their names were mute combinations of letters and numbers, joined by hyphens or separated by virgules. Some said that these components performed no functions. Others said that they worked, but their operations corresponded to no known human need. It was known that some of the finished products themselves were destroyed.
Dewforth leaned close and studied these, but found only mute combinations of letters and numbers, joined by hyphens or separated by virgules.... They made him feel somewhat more fragile, more round-shouldered and colder, but he resisted despair. It was getting a little darker, though. The skimmed-milk light above him was taking on a bluish tint.
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