A Voyage to Arcturus

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A book which is troublesome if not difficult to set down once one has entered the observator tower where the excursion begins and witnessed the fear blue sun which spins by a wide margin off Tormance.” – Loren Eiseley

Book Excerpt

otted to them. Mrs. Trent continued taking uncomfortable looks at them. All through the whole episode, Mozart’s psalm kept on being played. The ensemble likewise had heard nothing.

Backhouse now entered on his undertaking. It was one that started to be natural to him, and he had no uneasiness about the outcome. It was impractical to impact the emergence by simple convergence of will, or the activity of any personnel; in any case numerous individuals could have done what he had drawn in himself to do. His temperament was wonderful – the separating divider among himself and the otherworldly world was broken in numerous spots. Through the holes in his brain the occupants of the undetectable, when he called them, gone for a second tentatively and terribly into the strong, hued universe…