Saturday, December 5, 2009

The crest of Merkle's Hill just behind our last line. If the traitors come up the hill a demon of a lot of 'em won't go down again. That's what Brannan says anyhow. " "Good. " George.

She could feel vibrations through her feet though she could see nothing around the vegetation banking the curve. Listening intently she could now hear an odd phuff-phuff sound coming closer getting louder. The sound was just enough of a warning for her to move left out of the centre of the trace where she'd have just that much more of a glimpse of what was making.
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Is not surprising that all the oldest names for Mars have a peculiar weight on the tongue—Nirgal Mangala Auqakuh Harmakhis— they sound as if they were even older than the ancient languages we find them in as if they were fossil words from the Ice Age or before. Yes for thou sands of years Mars was a sacred power in human affairs; and its color made it a dangerous power representing blood anger war and the heart. Then the first telescopes gave us a closer look and we saw the little orange disk with its white poles and dark patches spreading and shrinking as the long seasons passed. No improvement in the technology of the telescope ever gave us much more than that; but the best Earthbound images gave Lowell enough blurs to inspire a story the story we all know of a dying world and a heroic people desperately.
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