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"Are you going to try that geometry?"
"If I get a chance. But, of course, they may make an advance first."
We remained passive, and the Selenites, having finished their
arrangements, stood back from us, and seemed to be looking at us. I say
seemed to be, because as their eyes were at the side and not in front, one
had the same difficulty in determining the direction in which they were
looking as one has in the case of a hen or a fish. They conversed with one
another in their reedy tones, that seemed to me impossible to imitate or
define. The door behind us opened wider, and, glancing over my shoulder, I
saw a vague large space beyond, in which quite a little crowd of Selenites
were standing. They seemed a curiously miscellaneous rabble.
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Do they want us to imitate those sounds?" I asked Cavor.
I don't think so," he said.
It seems to me that they are trying to make us understand something."
I can't make anything of their gestures. Do you notice this one, who is
worrying with his head like a man with an uncomfortable collar?"
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Let us shake our heads at him."
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