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"I will show you," he said, and lay down upon the floor Then he detached hi dead On his spider legs he walked toward the girl "Now look," he ad?" and he extended what appeared to be a bundle of tentacles from the posterior part of his head "There is an aperture just back of the rykor's mouth and directly over the upper end of his spinal column Into this aperture I insert my tentacles and seize the spinal cord Immediately I control every muscle of the rykor's body-it becomes my own, just as you direct the movement of the muscles of your body I feel what the rykor would feel if he had a head and brain If he is hurt, I would suffer if I remained connected with him; but the instant one of them is injured or becomes sick we desert it for another As ould suffer the pains of their physical injuries, similarly do we enjoy the physical pleasures of the rykors When your body becoued you are comparatively useless; it is sick, you are sick; if it is killed, you die You are the slave of amore wonderful about your carcass than there is about the carcass of a banth It is only your brain that makes you superior to the banth, but your brain is bound by the limitations of your body Not so, ours With us brain is everything Ninety per centum of our voluans and they are very small for they do not have to assist in the support of a complicated systes, for we do not require air Far below the levels to which we can take the rykors is a vast network of burrohere the real life of the kaldane is lived There the air-breathing rykor would perish as you would perish There we have stored vast quantities of food in hermetically sealed chambers It will last forever Far beneath the surface is water that will flow for countless ages after the surface water is exhausted We are preparing for the tie of the Barsooone For this purpose e created, that there ht not perish from the planet Nature's divinest creation-the perfect brain"

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