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| 27 | 75 | Inching View more quotes about forward">forward I saw, on the raised platform at this end of the room, the Mother. |
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| 27 | 72 | There were perhaps hundreds of knobs on each side and one Priest-King on each side with great skill and apparent rhythm touched one knob after another in intricate patterns. |
| 27 | 73 | I had little doubt but that these Priest-Kings were the most highly regarded musicians of the Nest, that they should be chosen to play together on the great Feast of Tola. |
| 27 | 74 | The antennae of the thousand Priest-Kings seemed almost motionless so intent were they on the beauties of the music. |
| 27 | 75 | Inching forward I saw, on the raised platform at this end of the room, the Mother. |
| 27 | 76 | For a moment I could not believe that it was real or alive. |
| 27 | 77 | It was undoubtedly of the Priest-King kind, and it now was unwinged, but the most incredible feature was the fantastic extent of the abdomen. |
| 27 | 78 | Its head was little larger than that of an ordinary Priest-King, or its thorax, but its trunk was conjoined to an abdomen which if swollen with eggs might have been scarcely smaller than a city bus. |