R. R. Winterbotham

“ Duerkes' thoughts hard to digest," she said, "but perhaps they will be better flavored in time."
Because life was so effortless, Hawes wondered how the people of this country escaped complete boredom. It was a nation where everyone was unemployed, for there was nothing to do. To build a house, one had merely to create it from thought. Thought also was food and the medium of exchange.
"Man misses a great deal," Loetta went on. "His five senses completely overlook the most worthwhile things of life." ”

“ Standing before them was a ship, an exact duplicate of the stratosphere scout.
Not a word passed between the two human beings as they got into the ship. It wasn't necessary to think in order to know what should be done.
"Hey!" cried the green cloud. "Come back here. You can't go away—"
The green cloud ran toward the ship, but it could not destroy it, for to do so would have been murder. One's own thoughts are not to be destroyed by one's self. Hawes realized this. He had tried several times to build a plane, but it always was eaten by a green cloud the second he got it finished. ”

“ Duerkes replied stiffly. "The universe is an orderly thing. It obeys fixed laws. It never varies in its course. The universe is one thing we can depend upon."
"If you ask me," Captain Hawes said, sending the plane up another thousand feet, "anything can happen." ”

“ As she spoke a green cloud flashed out of the heavens and calmly began eating her sisters.
Captain Hawes put his ship into a dive toward the earth.
[1] Philosophers have pointed out emphatically—and it is hardly necessary for me to repeat it—that man can know the world only "second hand." Man's consciousness perceives nothing directly, but through the medium of the senses. The translations of our sensory impulses in the brain could easily be—and often are—distorted. Artificial stimuli can affect the senses so that things can be perceived that do not actually exist. ”

“ The limits of his weak, fallacious human signal system of neurones had been pushed aside and Captain Hawes and his companion stood in direct contact with the external world—possibly the first human beings ever to do so. ”

“ It lived on the inanimate elements in the sea and rocks. Then came animal life, living in the sea and devouring the plants. Larger animals came to eat the small ones and life emerged from the sea onto the land. ”