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"Always have I been taught differently," replied Ghek; "but since I have known this woman and you, of another race, I have coh and desirable as those of the kaldanes At least I have had a gli you call happiness and I realize that itit I cannot laugh nor smile, and yet within s-a sense that seeuessed pleasure that far transcend the cold joys of a perfectly functioning brain I would that I had been born of thy race"

Caught by a gentle current of air the flier was drifting slowly toward the northeast across the valley of Bantoom Below them lay the cultivated fields, and one after another they passed over the strange towers of Moak and Nolach and the other kings of the swarms that inhabited this weird and terrible land Within each enclosure surrounding the towers grovelled the rykors, repellent, headless things, beautiful yet hideous

"A lesson, those," re the rykors in an enclosure above which they were drifting at the time, "to that fortunately small od of appetite You know them, Tara of Helium; they can tell you exactly what they had at the o, and how the loin of the thoat should be prepared, and what drink should be served with the ruhed "But not one of the took the Jeddak's Award in The Temple of Beauty this year," she said "Like the rykors, their development has not been balanced"

"Fortunate indeed are those in which there is coe of s, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point"

As Gahan ceased speaking Ghek made a little noise in his throat as one does ould attract attention "You speak as one who has thought much upon many subjects Is it, then, possible that you of the red race have pleasure in thought? Do you know aught of the joys of introspection? Do reason and logic form any part of your lives?"