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...complexities of their harsh and courtly government. In one of these he planned to insert a microphone strong enough to stand being lugged up the side of a mountain, delicate enough to record the clamor of tiny corridors, the swarming of young male and female ants, the uproar of sexless, wingless insects building subterranean castles for their queen...
Casual but successful experimenting had suggested writing to him as the means to wrest acclaim from the world he despised. When he feared that his only veins were sadistic horror and morbid, sexless romance, he wriggled out of admitting to limitations by translating them into, esthetic ideals. He propounded that perversity is a natural human appetite; that "there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in its proportions...
...nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...
...note to give the pitch, sounded a full vocal chord of perfectly true intonation. The choir sang with strong and vivid nuances. The basses were marvelous, sometimes like a deep bell note; the tenors were rich and full; the treble voices, of boys and men, were of that clear, sexless beauty that is characteristic of male sopranos and altos. Sometimes in the piano passages the voices moved with the exquisite nuances of violins; then sounded great, chanted chords as incisive as those of an orchestra. The Sistine Choir upheld the grandeur of a great name...