He could make nothing of the music. The voices were not disagreeable and the scale seemed adapted to human ears, but the time-pattern was meaningless to his sense of rhythm.
C.S.Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, Macmillan Co., N.Y., N.Y., 1965, p.66.
TIME: mid-1960's
PLACE: an alien planet
Behind them arose, re-echoed from the remote rock-pinnacle on other side of the valley, the bell-like, deep mouthed voices of more than two hundred hrossa, more musical than a cry of hounds but closely akin to it in quality as in purport.
C.S.Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, Macmillan Co., N.Y., N.Y., 1965, p .79.
TIME: mid-1960's
PLACE: a strange and alien planet
He lifted the ear-flaps of his cap and found his ears immediately filled with the sound of falling water.
C.S.Lewis,Out of the Silent Planet, Macmillan Co., N.Y., N.Y., 1965, p.106.
TIME: mid-1960's
PLACE: a weird and distant planet
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