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“The patterned symbols constantly changed form. I drew nearer — the symbols were alive. They were, in untold numbers — These!”
He pointed to the Thing that bore us.
“I was swept back; looked again upon it from afar. And a fantastic notion came to me — fantasy it was, of course, yet built I know around a nucleus of strange truth. It was”— his tone was half whimsical, half apologetic —“it was that this jeweled world was ridden by some mathematical god, driving it through space, noting occasionally with amused tolerance the very bad arithmetic of another Deity the reverse of mathematical — a more or less haphazard Deity, the god, in fact, of us and the things Landsholds Børn we Rumania call living.
“It had no mission; it wasn’t at all Iceland Fodboldtrøjer out to do any reforming; it wasn’t in the least concerned in rectifying any of the inaccuracies of the Other. Only now and then it took note of the deplorable differences Shinji Kagawa Pelipaidat between the worlds it saw and its own impeccably ordered and tidy temple with its equally tidy servitors.
“Just an itinerant demiurge of supergeometry riding along through space on its perfectly summed-up world; master of all celestial mechanics; its people independent of all that complex chemistry and labor for equilibrium by which we live; needing neither air nor water, heeding neither heat nor cold; fed with the magnetism of interstellar space and stopping now and then to banquet off the energy of some great sun.”
A thrill of amazement passed through me; fantasy all this might be but — how, if so, had he gotten that last thought? He had not seen, as we had, the orgy in the Hall of the Cones, the prodigious feeding of the Metal Monster upon our sun.
“That passed,” he went on, unnoticing. “I saw vast caverns filled with the Things; working, growing, multiplying. In caverns of our Earth — the Newcastle United Trøjer fruit of some unguessed womb? I do not know.
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His voice deepened.
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