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    The Eternal Wall
    The Eternal Wall
    The Eternal Wall
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    The Eternal Wall

    By Raymond Z. Gallun

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Eternal Wall
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    Raymond Z. Gallun

    Raymond Z. Gallun (1911-1994) was an author and technical writer, born and educated in Wisconsin.

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      The Eternal Wall - Raymond Z. Gallun

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Eternal Wall, by Raymond Zinke Gallun

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      Title: The Eternal Wall

      Author: Raymond Zinke Gallun

      Release Date: October 31, 2008 [EBook #27110]

      Language: English

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      THE

      ETERNAL

      WALL

      By RAYMOND Z. GALLUN

      A scream of brakes, the splash into icy waters, a long descent into alkaline depths ... it was death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later!

      See you in half an hour, Betty, said Ned Vince over the party telephone. We'll be out at the Silver Basket before ten-thirty....

      Ned Vince was eager for the company of the girl he loved. That was why he was in a hurry to get to the neighboring town of Hurley, where she lived. His old car rattled and roared as he swung it recklessly around Pit Bend.

      There was where Death tapped him on the shoulder. Another car leaped suddenly into view, its lights glaring blindingly past a high, up-jutting mass of Jurassic rock at the turn of the road.

      Dazzled, and befuddled by his own rash speed, Ned Vince had only swift young reflexes to rely on to avoid a fearful, telescoping collision. He flicked his wheel smoothly to the right; but the County Highway Commission hadn't yet tarred the traffic-loosened gravel at the Bend.

      An incredible science, millions of years old, lay in the minds of these creatures.

      Ned could scarcely have chosen a worse place to start sliding and spinning. His car hit the white-painted wooden rail sideways, crashed through, tumbled down a steep slope, struck a huge boulder, bounced up a little, and arced outward, falling as gracefully as a swan-diver toward the inky waters of the Pit, fifty feet

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