Blasphemers' Plateau
By Alexander Snyder
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. . . when he perceived the futility of struggling further, he lay quietly. . . . Stevens replaced the disrupted tube with a new one, and the horrendous screech that arose as he closed the circuit seemed almost to have something human in its terrible protest.
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