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| 1 | 762 | Their most intense, pleasurable View more quotes about experience">experience was perhaps to immerse their antennae in the filamented, narcotic mane of the golden beetle, which would then, piercing them with its curved, hollow, laterally moving jaw-pincers, drain them of their body fluid, feeding itself, slaying them. |
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| 1 | 759 | Lights, in the Nest, were for the benefit of humans and other visually oriented creatures sharing the domicile. |
| 1 | 760 | Their music was a rhapsody of odors, many of which were, to human olfactory organs, not even pleasant. |
| 1 | 761 | Their decorations were largely invisible lines of scent traced with great care on the interiors of their compartments. |
| 1 | 762 | Their most intense, pleasurable experience was perhaps to immerse their antennae in the filamented, narcotic mane of the golden beetle, which would then, piercing them with its curved, hollow, laterally moving jaw-pincers, drain them of their body fluid, feeding itself, slaying them. |
| 1 | 763 | The social bond of the Priest-Kings is Nest Trust. |
| 1 | 764 | Yet, in spite of their different evolutionary background and physiology, they had learned the meaning of the word 'friend'; too, I knew, they understood, if only in their own way, love. |
| 1 | 765 | I smiled to myself. |