The First Men in the Moon
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own into the black interior of the sphere. We two were alone. It was eveni
enta from Cavor. The interior was warm, the thermometer stood at eighty, and as we should lose little or none of this by radiation, we were d
bout my feet, and soon we had everything in. He walked about the roofless shed for a time se
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brought anyth
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in this sphere with ab
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hole. "Look!" he said. "
here
ll be a
ave brought. Farther away in the corner I saw a torn Lloyd's News. I scra
his hand and read,
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long of twilight vanished. We were in darkness. For a time neither of us spoke. Although our case would not be impervious to sound, everything was very
e no chairs
hat," said Cavor. "
y n
d, in the tone of a ma
would be cold and inhospitable enough for me-for weeks I had been living on subsidies from Cavor-but after all, would it be as cold as the infinite zero, as inhospitable as empty space? If it had
tling sound. For just one instant I had a sense of enormous tension, a transient conviction that
or!" I said into the darkness, "m
. He made
business have I here? I'm not coming, Cavo
n't," h
ll soon see
el now, Bedford," he said. "That little jerk was the start. Alrea
world before. Then I perceived an unaccountable change in my bodily sensations. It was a feeling of lightness, of unreality. Coupled with that was a queer sensation in the head, an apople
nd a little glow l
ded one another in silence. The transparent blackness of the
committed," I
aid, "we're
. "Let your muscles keep quite lax-as if you were in bed. W
to see that they were floating now nearly a foot from the spherical wall. Then I saw from his shadow that Cavor was no longe
that did not prevent my being afraid. We were cut off from all exterior gravitation, only the attraction of objects within our sphere had effect. Consequently everything that was not fixed to the glass was falling-slowly b
vor, "and float back to back,
he nearest thing in earthly experience to it that I know is lying on a very thick, soft feather bed. But the quality of utter detachment and independence! I had not reckoned on things like th