Lys La Rue: I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life. Life seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of life which…
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In 1916 a young American shipbuilder survives a U-boat attack and ends up aboard the German submarine with a mixed crew of enemies and allies. Lost in the southern seas, they find Caprona, an island ringed by sheer cliffs, where dinosaurs, ape-men and primitive tribes still live. The story is told through a manuscript found sealed in a bottle.
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There were all sorts and conditions of horrible things—huge, hideous, grotesque, monstrous—a veritable Mesozoic nightmare.
Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time—things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so…
Bowen Tyler: It looks to me, Whitely, like an error… some assistant god who had been creating elephants must have been temporarily transferred to the lizard-department.
It seemed odd to be eating a creature that should, by all the laws of paleontology, have been extinct for several million years. It gave one a feeling of newness that was almost embarrassing, although it didn’t seem to embarrass our appetites.
I then gave Lys a piece of dried meat, and sitting inside the entrance, we dined as must have some of our ancient forbears at the dawning of the age of man, while far below the open diapason of the savage night rose weird and horrifying to our ears. In the…