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    Where the World is Quiet
    Where the World is Quiet
    Where the World is Quiet
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    Where the World is Quiet

    By Henry Kuttner

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    Release dateJun 1, 2011
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      A well-told and interesting take on a variation of time travel. I listened to the librivox edition.

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    Where the World is Quiet - Henry Kuttner

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    Title: Where the World is Quiet

    Author: Henry Kuttner

    Release Date: February 7, 2010 [EBook #31207]

    Language: English

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    This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe May 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

    The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations. But White's lone Peruvian odyssey was most unusual. A story pseudonymously penned by one of the greats in the genre.

    where the world is quiet

    by ... C. H. Liddell

    Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things. Then there was the mystery of the seven young virginal girls of Huascan.

    Fra Rafael drew the llama-wool blanket closer about his narrow shoulders, shivering in the cold wind that screamed down from Huascan. His face held great pain. I rose, walked to the door of the hut and peered through fog at the shadowy haunted lands that lifted toward the sky—the Cordilleras that make a rampart along Peru's eastern border.

    There's nothing, I said. Only the fog, Fra Rafael.

    He made the sign of the cross on his breast. It is the fog that brings the—the terror, he said. "I tell you, Señor White, I have seen strange things these last few months—impossible things. You are a scientist. Though we are not of the same religion, you also know that there are powers not of this earth."

    I didn't answer, so he went on: Three months ago it began, after the earthquake. A native girl disappeared. She was seen going into the mountains, toward Huascan along the Pass, and she did not come back. I sent men out to find her. They went up the Pass, found the fog grew thicker and thicker until they were blind and could see nothing. Fear came to them and they fled back down the mountain. A week later another girl vanished. We found her footprints.

    The same canyon?

    "Si, and the same result. Now seven girls have gone, one after the other, all in the same way. And I, Señor White— Fra Rafael's pale, tired face was sad as he glanced down at the stumps of his legs—I could not follow, as you see. Four years ago an avalanche crippled me. My bishop told me to return to Lima, but I prevailed on him to let me remain here for these natives are my people, Señor. They know and trust

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