Word: thulcandra
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...first Ransom ignored the summons of the invisible Oyarsa. But when at length they "met," Ransom found the god far from terrible. Oyarsa explained that eons ago Thulcandra, the earth, had been taken over by a satanic eldil with Hitleresque ambitions and had since lost touch with the rest of the solar system. Consequently hmãn had lost the virtues of the other inhabited planets - the ability of hrossa, séroni and pfifltriggi to live happily together, each contributing his special mite to the common good. Hmãn had also lost his willingness to welcome death...
...Oyarsa put the three visitors back into their space ship. The séroni supplied air for a 90-day trip. Ransom returned to Thulcandra to take up his task of converting humans "from the conception of Space to the conception of Heaven," which, he felt, would prove quite a hmãn-size...
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