Sherlock Holmes's War Of The Worlds - Plot & Excerpts
Swiftly he drew an oval body, set at one end with round eyes and a V-shaped mouth, between two fringes of whiplike tentacles. "It is like an octopus," I suggested. "Somewhat, in its external appearance," granted Challenger. "But this curious body structure is for the most part, more or less a gigantic brain-case, as I think. I discerned the rhythmic movement of what I take to be the operation of lungs. Here at the back," and he shaded a circular area, "is what may well be an eardrum, though perhaps it is not very effective in the dense atmosphere of our planet." "They do use extremely loud siren blasts to signal each other," commented Holmes, studying the sketch. "Now, Challenger, I suggest that this anatomical specialization—very little indeed beyond the huge brain and two sets of nimble fingers—argues a far greater evolutionary advance beyond terrestrial man than would be ours beyond, say, those baboons I have mentioned." "You seem to think that they have developed from an earlier form somewhat like man," said Challenger gruffly, almost as though he made an accusation.
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