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Tarzan on Mars
tory command, dominating her mind and soul, calling to her
out of the dimness of incalculable time and space.
Slowly, La saw the glowing pool of light in her hand
expand into a gulf of glittering stars. And of a sudden she was
falling into it, unable to cry out, as though disembodied and
drifting down a cold abyss of emptiness—forever...
As Gridley had pointed out to Tarzan, some Martians—those
isolated wizards who had yet ridden the last
wave of the "olden tide" of progress—were frighteningly
advanced.
Though Tario wa not aware of what the stupendously
amplified concentration of his mentality was accomplishing,
had he known the true facts, he could have explained it to you
in terms of the universal basics of cause and effect. However,
he might also have been force to extend the span of your life
perhaps a few hundred years so that you could first learn a
great deal more concerning the real nature of matter and
energy, to initiate you into the metaphysical dynamics of
inductive causation and then allow you to acquire that which
no man may be taught— the wisdom that elevates to a cosmic
perspective, mechanics of psychical relativity.
For our story, however, it should suffice to say that the
tenth Barsoomian ray, which was generated only in tharton,
acted like a magnetic flux in relation to another concentration
of tharton. Inasmuch as there were only two tharton crystals
in existence, the rays generated in each had an affinity for
each other. Augmented by Tario's mind, these rays leapt out
to each other and locked in a psychic bridge across intervening
space. And it was this invisible bridge which transmitted
the mentality of Tario to Opar. What followed was teleportation
in reverse. La, who held in her hands the greatest of the
two psychic amplifiers, was teleported to Mars.
For, as any Lotharian would tell you, the mind and its
manifestations are neither limited by nor related to the
deceiving relativity of physical distance. The same thing
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