It made me laugh and pant for a time, and suggested the idea of a little oxygen from one of the cylinders. That brought me out of the infinite to my own proper dimensions again. I lit the little lamp first of all to see what it was I had collided with, and discovered that old copy of Lloyd's News had slipped its moorings, and was adrift in the void.

I kicked off from the bale, therefore, clawed on to the thin cords within the glass, crawled along until I got to the manhole rim, and so got my bearings for the light and blind studs, took a shove off, and flying once round the bale, and getting a scare from something big and flimsy that was drifting loose, I got my hand on the cord quite close to the studs, and reached them. I immediately perceived that if I wanted to keep awake and alive I must get a light or open a window, so as to get a grip of something with my eyes. At the touch of the bale it was as if I had awakened from a dreamless sleep. In the sphere of course, even more than on the moon, one's earthly time sense was ineffectual.

I do not know how long that drifting took. My fingers floated off the studs, I hung as if I were annihilated, and at last very softly and gently I came against the bale and the golden chain, and the crowbars that had drifted to the middle of the sphere. I seemed to be borne upward into an enormous darkness. Although the thing was done by my own act, although I had already tasted this very of effect in Cavor's company, I felt astonished, dumbfounded, and overwhelmed. One moment, a passion of agonising existence and fear the next darkness and stillness, neither light nor life nor sun, moon nor stars, the blank infinite. Indeed, I could imagine a man suddenly and violently killed would feel very much as I did. It was almost as though I had been killed. Previous Chapter Next Chapter Chapter 20: Mr.

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