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Excerpt from The Challenge to Sirius
John Rainger watched impatiently the life-dance of the flies. The air was full of life, winged, darting and humming, and in the grass under his feet life was crawling, growing, sprout ing and blossoming. He lifted his eyes and saw a hawk poised with outspread wings above the willows where the little birds had not yet all left their nests. Life was also preying and devouring. He stood and watched the poised hawk, and a gloomy pleasure possessed him; he welcomed the one sinister touch in all that landscape of blossom and sunshine. The bright heat, mellowed by the haze, the smell of the warm grass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
