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upon his thigh, and swore it.
By the ineffable , Tla, and by the holy Zro, did he swear
it, and entered into the body of the new Atla that is alive upon
the earth.
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NOTES:
Chapter I:
p3. There were four (some say five) distinct races, each
having several sub-races. But the main characteristics were the
same. Some alleged the Portuguese and the English to be survivals
of this or kindred stock.
p3. Or ZRA'D. The ZR is drawled slowly; then the lips are
suddenly curled back in a sneering snarl, and the vowel sharply
and forcibly uttered. It is disputed whether this word is
connected with the Sanscrit SRI, holy.
p4. The same danger to society in our own time has been
forseen, and an identical remedy discovered and applied in
compulsory education and cheap newspapers.
Chapter II:
p6. Gautama Buddha was the reincarnation or legend of a
previous Buddha who was a missionary from Atlas, hence the
account of his immovable neck, the ears that he could fold over
his face, and other monstrous details.
p6. There was a Governor of these, of whose name, nature and
function I am not permitted to speak.
p7. One of the most brilliant children committed suicide on
learning that he could not move his upper jaw. This boy is of the
eleven heroes who had statues in the High House. And the
Atlantean for 'sorrow' in its ultimate sense ('dukka' or
'weltschmerz') is to wrench at the upper jaw.
p8. This system of communication has great advantages over
any other. It is independent of distance, and dependent on the
will of the transmitter. Telepathic messages could not be
'tapped' or miscarry in any way.
p9. Called by them Zhee-Zhou, in imitation of the swish of
the tail and the cry of its victim.
Chapter III:
p10. The point was discussed fully, and finally relegated, in
the Council of Stockholm, 1913.
p10. The scene is so real to me that I find it impossible to
avoid using the historic present here and elsewhere,
inadvertently.
p10. There are six other pieces of apparatus to insulate and
carry to the basin the six subtler principles of sweat.
p11. Only the smallest quantity is required, and it is
unchanged, its function being purely catalytic. This form of
phosphorus is one of the most stable elements. It combines (so
far as is known) only with Zro. But if thrown out of such a
combination, it becomes ordinary yellow phosphorous.
p12. In spite of the absolute promiscuity of the Atlanteans,
this was never in doubt, owing to the special mark of each man,
whose stigma or variation was infallibly transmitted.
p13. This item is loosely used, as equivalent of 'life.' The
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