Dune
or
Blake's 7
or
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
except that it wasn't made of
solid material, it was made of droplets of condensed water vapor, which is what
clouds are made of.
And it could have been an alien spaceship.
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have
lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we
would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they
exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs,
or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might
not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And
their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects
like dust or leaves.
Then I listened to the sounds in the garden and I could hear a bird singing and
I could hear traffic noise which was like the surf on a beach and I could hear
someone playing music somewhere and children shouting. And in between these
noises, if I listened very carefully and stood completely still, I could hear a tiny
whining noise inside my ears and the air going in and out of my nose.
Then I sniffed the air to see if I could see what the air in the garden smelled
like. But I couldn't smell anything. It smelled of nothing. And this was
interesting, too.
Then I went inside and fed Toby.
107.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
is my favorite book.
In
The Hound of the Baskervilles,
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get a
visit from James Mortimer, who is a doctor from the moors in Devon. James
Mortimer's friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, has died of a heart attack and James
Mortimer thinks that he might have been scared to death. James Mortimer also
has an ancient scroll which describes the curse of the Baskervilles.
On this scroll it says that Sir Charles Baskerville had an ancestor called Sir
Hugo Baskerville, who was a wild, profane and godless man. And he tried to do
sex with a daughter of a yeoman, but she escaped and he chased her across the
moor. And his friends, who were daredevil roisterers, chased after him.
And when they found him, the daughter of the yeoman had died of exhaustion
and fatigue. And they saw a great black beast, shaped like a hound yet larger
than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested on, and this hound was tearing
the throat out of Sir Hugo Baskerville. And one of the friends died of fear that
very night and the other two were broken men for the rest of their days.
James Mortimer thinks that the Hound of the Baskervilles might have scared
Sir Charles to death and he is worried that his son and heir, Sir Henry
Baskerville, will be in danger when he goes to the hall in Devon.
So Sherlock Holmes sends Doctor Watson to Devon with Sir Henry
Baskerville and James Mortimer. And Doctor Watson tries to work out who
might have killed Sir Charles Baskerville. And Sherlock Holmes says he will
stay in London, but he travels to Devon secretly and does investigations of his
own.
And Sherlock Holmes finds out that Sir Charles was killed by a neighbor
called Stapleton who is a butterfly collector and a distant relation of the
Baskervilles. And Stapleton is poor, so he tries to kill Sir Henry Baskerville so
that he will inherit the hall.
In order to do this he has brought a huge dog from London and covered it in
phosphorus to make it glow in the dark, and it was this dog which scared Sir
Charles Baskerville to death. And Sherlock Holmes and Watson and Lestrade
from Scotland Yard catch him. And Sherlock Holmes and Watson shoot the dog,
which is one of the dogs which gets killed in the story, which is not nice because
it is not the dog's fault. And Stapleton escapes into the Grimpen Mire, which is
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