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"There is curved time, and angular time. The beings that exist in angular time cannot enter curved time. It is very strange." (...) "They scented me in time." he moaned. "I went too far." "What were they like?" I said, to humor him.
He leaned forward and gripped my arm. He was shivering horribly. "No words in our language can describe them!" He spoke in a hoarse whisper. "They are symbolized vaguely in the myth of the Fall, and in an obscene form which is occasionally found engraved on ancient tablets. The Greeks had a name for them, which veiled their essential foulness. The tree, the snake and the apple—these are the vague symbols of a most awful mystery.
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He had risen and was hysterically pacing the room. "The seeds of the deed move through angles in dim recesses of time. They are hungry and athirst!" (...)
"They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked. "The Hounds of Tindalos!"
The Hounds of Tindalos (1929)
by Frank Belknap Long
Inspired by the Xenomorph design too
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