2001: A Space Odissey Chapter 5 -Encounter in the Dawn Academy Arthur C. Clarke PART I - PRIMEVAL NIGHT
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2001: A Space Odissey Chapter 5 -Encounter in the Dawn Academy Arthur C. Clarke PART I - PRIMEVAL NIGHT
As he led the tribe down to the river in the dim light of dawn, Moon-Watcher paused uncertainly at a familiar spot. Something, he knew, was missing; but what it was, he could not remember. He wasted no mental effort on the problem, for this morning he had more important matters on his mind. Like thunder and lightning and clouds and eclipses, the great block of crystal had departed as mysteriously as it had come. Having vanished into the nonexistent past, it never troubled Moon- Watcher's thoughts again. He would never know what it had done to him; and none of his companions wondered, as they gathered round him in the morning mist, why he had paused for a moment here on the way to the river. From their side of the stream, in the never-violated safety of their own territory, the Others first saw Moon-Watcher and a dozen males of his tribe as a moving frieze against the dawn sky. At once they began to scream their daily challenge; but this time, there was no answer. Steadily, purposefully - above…
