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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Look here, Bedford," said Cavor, "you came on this expedition of your own free will." "You said to me, 'Call it prospecting'." "There's always risks in prospecting." "Especially when you do it unarmed and without thinking out every possibility." "I was so taken up with the sphere. The thing rushed on us, and carried us away." "Rushed on me, you mean." "Rushed on me just as much.
I stood up and searched up the rocks with my fingers; the cleft broadened out upwardly. "It's climbable," I said to Cavor. "Can you jump up to my hand if I hold it down to you?" I wedged myself between the sides of the cleft, rested knee and foot on the ledge, and extended a hand. I could not see Cavor, but I could hear the rustle of his movements as he crouched to spring.
"We might attempt once more to establish some sort of understanding with the minds of the people in the moon." "So far as I'm concerned it's the first." "I doubt." "I don't." "You see," said Cavor, "I do not think we can judge the Selenites by what we have seen of them. Their central world, their civilised world will be far below in the profounder caverns about their sea.
They stood about us watching us, and ever and again making a slight elusive twittering that stood the suppose, in the stead of speech. I did not even shiver at their touch. And when the first zeal of my feeding was over, I could note that Cavor, too, had been eating with the same shameless abandon. Experiments in intercourse
What is the good of talking like this?" Cavor thought. "I don't see that. Where there are minds they will have something similar even though they have been evolved on different planets. Of course if it was a question of instincts, if we or they are no more than animals " "Well, are they?
"Whajer mean?" asked Cavor. "'Scovery of the moon se'nd on'y to the 'tato?" I looked at him, shocked at his suddenly hoarse voice, and by the badness of his articulation. It occurred to me in a flash that he was intoxicated, possibly by the fungus. It also occurred to me that he erred in imagining that he had discovered the moon; he had not discovered it, he had only reached it.
It arrested our steps. We stood gaping helplessly. Then Cavor stole towards me. "I do not understand!" he whispered close to my face. He waved his hand vaguely skyward, the vague suggestion of still vaguer thoughts. "A hiding-place! If anything came..." I looked about us. I nodded my head in assent to him. We started off, moving stealthily with the most exaggerated precautions against noise.
For a moment his form was distinct, then he became a blue blur, and then vanished into the obscurity. I became aware of some vague shape looming darkly out of the black. There was a pause. "Surely! " said Cavor. One of the other Selenites walked a few paces out upon the plank, and turned and looked back at us unconcernedly. The others stood ready to follow after us.
The distant cliff had receded farther and farther, had loomed and changed through the whirl, and foundered and vanished at last in its confusion. Nearer came that steaming advance, nearer and nearer, coming as fast as the shadow of a cloud before the south-west wind. About us rose a thin anticipatory haze. Cavor gripped my arm. "What?" I said. "Look! The sunrise! The sun!"
I clambered about and bent the adjacent bar in the opposite direction, and then took the luminous fungus from my pocket and dropped it down the fissure. "Don't do anything hastily," whispered Cavor, as I twisted myself up through the opening I had enlarged.
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