1 We have built strange things with this discovery of ours.
2 The house had two stories and a strange roof flat as a floor.
3 Never had we seen such a number of them, nor of such strange shape.
4 We thought it strange that men had been permitted to build a house for only twelve.
5 There were strange things which we had never seen and the use of which we do not know.
6 And a strange thought comes to us: we wonder, for the first time in our life, what we look like.
7 We found strange boxes with bars of metal inside, with many cords and strands and coils of metal.
8 And we wished to be hungry again and soon, that we might know again this strange new pride in eating.
9 We melt strange metals, and we mix acids, and we cut open the bodies of the animals which we find in the City Cesspool.
10 We found wires that led to strange little globes of glass on the walls; they contained threads of metal thinner than a spider's web.
11 And when we look thus without words, we both know other things also, strange things for which there are no words, and these things frighten us.
12 And now there is nothing here save our one body, and it is strange to see only two legs stretched on the ground, and on the wall before us the shadow of our one head.
13 The frog had been hanging on a wire of copper; and it had been the metal of our knife which had sent the strange power to the copper through the brine of the frog's body.
14 We killed a mountain goat, and we brought its flesh to be cooked in a strange copper pot we found in a place of wonders, which must have been the cooking room of the house.
15 They whisper many strange things, of the towers which rose to the sky, in those Unmentionable Times, and of the wagons which moved without horses, and of the lights which burned without flame.
16 Tonight, after more days and trials than we can count, we finished building a strange thing, from the remains of the Unmentionable Times, a box of glass, devised to give forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before.