The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: gigantic, boat-shaped cars. I ceased to be afraid of them, for
they seemed to form supremely natural parts of their environment.
Individual differences amongst them began to be manifest, and
a few appeared to be under some kind of restraint. These latter,
though shewing no physical variation, had a diversity of gestures
and habits which marked them off not only from the majority, but
very largely from one another.
They wrote a great deal in what
seemed to my cloudy vision a vast variety of characters - never
the typical curvilinear hieroglyphs of the majority. A few, I
fancied, used our own familiar alphabet. Most of them worked much
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