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Tarzan on Mars
And what I cannot understand, I cannot trust."
"Ranas Ghol," said Zithad, "would you kindly demonstrate
to our ally here how you are able to look into the future?"
"Of course," replied the latter. He then addressed Sardon
Dhur. "I shall not bore you with theory. Suffice it to say that
all physical things have four dimensions, the fourth one being
duration, since nothing can exist instantaneously. Now you
are equipped with only two eyes, and your minds are so
constituted that you catch only a planar perspective of the
space-time continuum. If you saw light only along the path of
those rays which have an angle of incidence of ninety degrees,
you would call this polarized light. But your perspective
of the true four dimensional universe is also polarized.
You see only now. We, on the other hand, see at least the
outlines of the extension of all things into past and future—thus!"
Whereupon the furrow in his forehead opened wide, to
disclose a great, baleful orb that was gray, vaguely opalescent,
and totally devoid of a pupil.
Sardon Dhur half rose out of his chair, his face contorted
in alarm and instinctive revulsion. "Be the Holy Seed of Life!"
he swore. "You are not human—not of this world!"
"They are human," said Tario, "but they originated from
a world which was destroyed by the Great Cataclysm."
Sardon Dhur sank back in his seat, staring at Ranas
Ghol's third eye. "And with that," he asked, "you can see our
future?"
"Not as individuals," said Ranas Ghol, as though in a
trance—for his third eye still stared unblinking into the fourth
dimension. "But by the probable affects of your combined
efforts." Having said this, he closed the great eye in his
forehead.
"A question, then," said Tario, leaning forward. "Would
your view of the future indicate to you whether or not you
should ally yourselves with our cause?"
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