Labels: text | electronic device | screenshot | machine | electronics OCR: ARTISTS DREAM OF MARS H.G. WELLS Having taken refuge with a curate in an CINEMA & MUSIC B abandoned house, the narrator describes the impact of the fifth cylinder, which strikes the house and buries them under the ruins. "For a time the curate was silent, and then he whispered: 'God have mercy upon us!' " The men are imprisoned, because outside a Martian is standing guard over the still-glowing cylinder. He gives us a detailed description of the monsters, which as he notes, is later confirmed by dissection. "Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians. They were heads- merely heads. Entrails they had none. They did not eat, much less digest. Instead, they took the fresh, living blood of other creatures, and injected it into their own veins. I have myself seen this being done ... " Furthermore, he adds, " ... Wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise from that difference among men." The Martians, he says, reproduce by budding like a lily-bulb. MARS BET
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