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| 50 | 124 | There was a dim, yellowish View more quotes about light">light within, though I supposed it bright enough for the chamber's occupants. |
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| 50 | 121 | Kur, with its dialects, is as much a complex native language as any familiar to humans. |
| 50 | 122 | What is the lever or the wheel, compared to the meaningful sound? What a rare moment when a simple organism, shambling and brutelike, in lost millennia, first lifted its head to the sky, and realized, in a stunning, magical moment, that a sound might mean. |
| 50 | 123 | The door swung open, heavily. |
| 50 | 124 | There was a dim, yellowish light within, though I supposed it bright enough for the chamber's occupants. |
| 50 | 125 | It eerily illuminated the chamber. |
| 50 | 126 | I was reminded of the denlike apartments I had encountered on a far world, a steel world, save that there was here, in the recesses, a shallow cistern and, on a wall to the left, as one would enter, a number of slabs of meat, fastened on hooks. |
| 50 | 127 | I had somehow expected a variety of pipings, a number of vessels, glassware in the form of beakers, cylinders, and retorts, racks of complex equipment, conduits, valves, and tanks of sorts, things more to be expected in a laboratory or workshop. |