Labels: text | machine | electronics | screenshot OCR: Soon, the astronomer Ogilvy hears a stirring ARTISTS DREAM OF MARS within the cylinder. He is astonished to realize H.G. WELLS . it is hollow and that something inside is vainly trying to unscrew the top! Finally, after hours of effort, the first CINEMA & MUSIC Martian emerged. "A big grayish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather. Two large dark-colored eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded and had, one might say, a face. There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva. The whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively. A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air." The narrator adds, "Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-shaped lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles ... something fungoid in the oil brown skin ... Even at this first encounter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread." He is all the more frightened because in the preceding days ten strange flashes of light had been observed on Mars. The launching of ten rockets bringing Martian invaders? MARS BETAT
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