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In pursuance of this theory he strove sedulously to teach the ape to distinguish colors, to recognize and fashion geometrical patterns, and to do many of the clever things with blocks and tinted paper that four and five year olds do in the kindergartens. Each new accomplishment he claimed as a triumph and a further vidication of his theory. I had my doubts, although I was willing to concede that Claybourne was a good animal-trainer.

He’s found the fourth dimension and it is the realm of invisibility.

For twenty years, in company with her great father, she had watched The Defender grow from a vast metal skeleton into a planet-sized battle globe.

I want the name and address of every girl over twenty-one who fits this description.

War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose al the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it.

He seemed to think it was a privilege to live on a world whose spin had almost stopped, stretching the days and nights into years so that it was useless even to go underground.

Every event that happens on this cockeyed world, from a picnic to a wedding to a company merger or a war, it’s all based on astrology.

A person can suddenly disappear before our eyes, by accidentally or purposely stepping into another dimension.

Then it was as if whatever was holding us had just stopped existing, no jolt, but like sliding on oil, like a horrible falling where there is no falling.

Sally patted her grandmother’s shoulder. “It’s time to go.”

Talking Bunny of Christmas Present: Like I said, sick animals.
Dad: Oh, is he, uh, . . . I mean will he, uh, . . .
Bunny: Don't know.

It predicts future crimes so we can catch criminals in the act.

But as time goes by, at birthdays or other annual markers, people begin to notice you aren’t getting any older.

Seriously, Charles Wallace, I’m underwhelmed.

This was it; this was the summoning Mastema had been waiting for.