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The Beginning, by Henry Hasse
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Title: The Beginning
Author: Henry Hasse
Illustrator: Virgil Finlay
Release Date: December 28, 2008 [EBook #27645]
Language: English
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Relentlessly, a narrative as old as time drives forward to a climax as old as man--and points a finger as grim as Death.
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the BEGINNING
By HENRY HASSE
Illustrated by FINLAY
In the purely cerebral sense, there was no particular point-of-sequence at which Gral could have been said to Know. The very causality of his existence was a succession of brute obedience to brute awareness, for it was only thus that one survived. There was the danger-sense on those days when the great-toothed cats roamed the valley, and the males-who-will-bring remained huddled and sullen in the caves above the great ledge; there was the hunger-sense when provender was low, and Gor-wah drove them out with grunts and gibes to hunt the wild-dogs and lizards and lesser beasts; and not infrequently there was the other sense, the not-hunger, when the bring had been exceptional and there was somnolence after the gorging.
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