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    The Beginning
    The Beginning
    The Beginning
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    The Beginning

    By Virgil Finlay and Henry Hasse

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Beginning - Virgil Finlay

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Beginning, by Henry Hasse

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      Title: The Beginning

      Author: Henry Hasse

      Illustrator: Virgil Finlay

      Release Date: December 28, 2008 [EBook #27645]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEGINNING ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Relentlessly, a narrative as old as time drives forward to a climax as old as man—and points a finger as grim as Death.

      the BEGINNING

      By HENRY HASSE

      Illustrated by FINLAY

      In the purely cerebral sense, there was no particular point-of-sequence at which Gral could have been said to Know. The very causality of his existence was a succession of brute obedience to brute awareness, for it was only thus that one survived. There was the danger-sense on those days when the great-toothed cats roamed the valley, and the males-who-will-bring remained huddled and sullen in the caves above the great ledge; there was the hunger-sense when provender was low, and Gor-wah drove them out with grunts and gibes to hunt the wild-dogs and lizards and lesser beasts; and not infrequently there was the other sense, the not-hunger, when the bring had been exceptional and there was somnolence after the gorging.

      Gral could not remember when he had experienced the latter, for it was the dictate of Gor-wah, the Old One, that who did not bring did not eat—not until the others had gorged. Gral was small, and weakest of all the males. Not often did he bring. Once on a spurious moment he had scaled the valley-rim, and came out upon the huge plain where it was rumored the little three-toed horses roamed. And he had seen them, he had seen them! He pursued, armed only with blunt shaft and a few of the throw-stones such as Otah used; but he was less swift than the tiny horses, and his throw-stones fell wide, and it was rumored that here roamed the long-tusked shaggy ones that were larger than the very caves ... trembling, Gral had retraced his way, to arrive at the ledge and meekly await Gor-wah's word that he could partake of the sinews that night.

      ... Point of sequence. Causality in action. An atom is dissected, a belly rumbles in hunger, a star blooms into brief nova; a bird wheels in futile escape, an ice-flow impacts, an equation is expressed in awesome mushrooming shape. These are multitudinous, apocalyptic. They are timeless and equal. These are things whereby suns wheel or blossom

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