Michael Malone - Weebly

Demolition had its peculiar carnal delights. Hastily they
wasted a superfluity of scientific equipment for which
Thomas Svatopluk (buying for the government) had
been extraordinarily overcharged. Then they razed the
lab and leveled the living quarters and wrecked the rec
room. Into the trucks went the portables like the color
TV, collapsible pool table, and Coke machine. What
wouldn't fit into the trucks and wouldn't burn was
lugged over to the big, murky pond nearby and
chucked in. It all sank to the dark floor of the pond, like
accidental offerings thrown to the monster down in the
far depths, with its monstrous, single, round glittering
eye of glass and the tentacles of arms and legs that
waved loosely from its green metal body. Like
household objects buried with Egyptian dead,
typewriters, latrines, electric razors, and chess sets
waited in the pond silt to accompany Wolton and
Eagerly and their pilot into the Other World.
By the time the soldiers had destroyed the
compound, the sun had seeped away, and, so said
Hector Brickhart, a big white lit of a moon bobbed over
their heads. The scientists' bodies were already on their