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| 9 | 241 | I could not conjecture the View more quotes about nature">nature of the creature's experience but I knew that I stood within the center of its sensory field. |
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| 9 | 238 | From its head there extended two fragile, jointed appendages, long and covered with short quivering strands of golden hair. |
| 9 | 239 | These two appendages, like eyes, swept the room once and then seemed to focus on me. |
| 9 | 240 | They curved toward me like delicate golden pincers and each of the countless golden strands on those appendages straightened and pointed toward me like a quivering golden needle. |
| 9 | 241 | I could not conjecture the nature of the creature's experience but I knew that I stood within the center of its sensory field. |
| 9 | 242 | About its neck there hung a small circular device, a translator of some sort, similar to but more compact than those I had hitherto seen. |
| 9 | 243 | I sensed a new set of odors, secreted by what stood before me. |
| 9 | 244 | Almost simultaneously a mechanically reproduced voice began to emanate from the translator. |