Ray Bradbury by The Sound of Thunder

Author:The Sound of Thunder
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-12T02:17:31+00:00

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“Ah,” said Travis.

Everyone stopped.

Travis raised his hand. “Ahead,” he whispered. “In the mist. There he is. There’s His Royal Majesty now.” The jungle was wide and full of twitterings , rustlings, murmurs, and sighs.

Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door.

Silence.

A sound of thunder.

Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus Rex.

“Jesus God,” whispered Eckels .

“Shit”

It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It lowered thirtyfeet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding itsdelicate watchmaker’s claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of whitebone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over ina gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior, Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh.

And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those twodelicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands whichmight pick up and examine men like toys, while the snakeneck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing Page 11

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