Avon Murder Mystery Monthly No. 41 — page 93: what you’re looking at

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A, MERRITT 95 retains memory of it; for even after the current has ceased it remains. changed in tensile strength, conductivity and other qualities that were modified by the passage of that current; and as time passes this memory fades. Precisely as some human experience increases wariness, caution, which keying up of qualities remains with us after the experience has passed, and fades away in the ratio of our sensitivity plus retentiveness divided by the time elapsing from the original experience—exactly as it is in the iron.” | CHAPTER XVI Lonscious Metall RANTED,” I acquiesced. “We now come to their means of locomotion. In its simplest terms ‘all locomotion is progress through space against the force of gravitation. Man’s walk is a series of rhythmic stumbles against this force that constantly strives to drag him down to earth’s face and keep him pressed there. Gravitation is an etheric— magnetic vibration akin to the force which holds, to use your simile again, Drake, the filing against the magnet. A walk is a constant breaking of the current. - “Take a motion picture of a man walking and run it through the lantern rapidly and he seems to be flying. We have none of the awk- ward fallings and recoveries that are the tempo of walking as we see it. “I take it that the movement of these Things is a conscious breaking of the gravitational current just as much as is our own movement, but by a rhythm so swift that it appears to be continuous. | “Doubtless if we could so control our sight as to admit the vibrations Gé of light slowly enough we would see this apparently smooth motion as a series of leaps—just as we do when the motion-picture operator slows down his machine sufficiently to show us walking in a series of stumbles. | | | “Very well—so far, then, we have nothing in this phenomena which the human mind cannot conceive as possible; therefore intellectually we still remain masters of the phenomena; for it is only that which human thought cannot encompass which it need fear.” “Metallic,” he said, “and crystalline. And yet—why not? What are we but bags of skin filled with certain substances in solution and stretched over a supporting and mobile mechanism largely made up of GOGO (GO)