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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you reach it without losing your grip? If you can, do you think you can open it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can reach it all right. There's a holder hook alongside it. But what will I do when I get there?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After you go through the door, it's up to you. Boulton will be there. You'll have to stop him, somehow. Caton says if you can find the tool kit you may be able to get a wrench to use as a weapon. If you can get through without his seeing you and open the trap door to us, we'll d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boy, that was some kickback, he muttered. He looked at Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me a hand up. We've got to get back to the jeep and scram out of here fast. The A-bomb's already set." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How'd I get here, son?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess you're all right now. But let's get the trap door to the control room open. Clyde and Caton have got to get the ship back on course. There'll be time to explain afterward." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Burl, your body received a charge a long time ago. Whatever its nature, it counteracted or shorted Boulton's when you came into contact." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, Burl conjectured," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe. We'll find out at t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The satellite's like a huge ball of thin mud that's never hardened," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The equator's the softest--it seems to be a river of muddy water, hundreds of miles wide--only it can't be water. Probably semisolidified gases holding dust and grains ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duck!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was an atomic explosion! Haines shouted into his helmet mike." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They mined the station. Run for it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Their little atomic bomb shattered the thin crust. The whole polar island will probably sink, said Russ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a clever trap. They knew what would happen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Saturn next, said Burl." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Could it be a tenth satellite?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think so. It looks to me more like something that's in space between us and Saturn. In fact--it must be fairly close to us for us to see it at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The pattern of spheres certainly suggests the Sun-tappers to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I don't have to argue this further, considering our recent experiences. His voice hesitated, then rang out firmly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haines, you can commence firing at will!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Okay, Burl, aim at her dire...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They fired a burst of energy at us. It hit the rocket shell instead, said Haines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, now we know. They use bolts of pure energy--something like the one they fired at Boulton." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How did they ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ferrati, fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The shrapnel shell is segmented and doesn't have a proximity guide, Haines explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As soon as it's on its way, the nose comes apart into a dozen small shells, each with a standard explosive charge. The shell we used has an atomic bom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I figure it takes them a while to recharge their gun, said Haines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our own blockbuster should get there before they fire again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what's to be gained by attempting a landing party, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've taken all the readings and pictures of the other stations--and we've had a couple of narrow escapes. They've probably mined this one, and they have had plenty...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, said Ferrati slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Oberfield, he said, unexpectedly formal and official," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aye, aye, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uranus is not too far off our path to Pluto, he announced one day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll make it in time to wipe out their plant there. But Neptune, whose orbit is between those of Uranus and Pluto, is away off our track, a third of the way around the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you notice what seems to be a sort of shifting movement?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see it. What do you suppose it is?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, said Russ," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, Russ. This dust is full of streaks and marks. It hasn't been lying here undisturbed. Something has crossed over it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impossible, muttered Russ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life can't exist here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They look like plants, said Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plants made of something glassy and plastic." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a great discovery, he said incredulously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is life! It's life of a chemical type utterly different from the protoplasm of Earth and Mars and Venus. It's life designed to exist among liquid gases and frozen air--life which ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pluto's a mysterious world, said Burl as he and Russ scanned the heavens for a first glimpse of it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The accounts in your astronomy books give very little real information on it--but what they give is strange. They say it's the only plan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm okay, Burl called." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's get this port open. Maybe we can hit back at least once." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, let's see if we're goners, too," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you're okay, but I had hoped you'd be able to put in a blow for us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We took what they had to give, and it wasn't enough, exulted Haines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now wait till we reach their main works. We'll show them!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's hope we don't have to show them soon. Our ship is running ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're in no position to come to grips with them, said Lockhart." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to take the _Magellan_ into a low orbit around Pluto's equator. We'll be out of their sight, yet near enough to do some probing and exploring while we're making r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We want permission to make a landing, Russ said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we take the four-man rocket plane we can make the ground safely. We've got to reconnoiter before we can figure out how to put this master Sun-tap station out of business." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel peculiar, whispered Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This planet reminds me of something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have the feeling I've been here before," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's it!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's like a black-and-white photo of a Terrestrial landscape," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know what this feels and looks like? he said as they came close to the frozen creek on the little hillside." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It feels like dirt--common, Earthly dirt. Like soil. And you know what ... I can already tell you one of Pluto's secrets." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They went in and out the windows, commented Burl, ducking through one of the openings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And they weren't built like us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Russ," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This looks lik...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no doubt, said Russ," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how could they have survived? Burl asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This world was never part of the solar system when it was warm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll soo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But where is this moon?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then came the moment when their planet fell into an orbit around our Sun. I'd guess they emerged to find that the new Sun was too far away ever to heat up Pluto again, or to permit the rebuilding of an atmosphere. So they worked out a new scheme. This was to blow up the Sun into...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An air lock system," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Apparently these people really are at their last gasp," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be the base of the Sun-tap receiver line, whispered Haines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This should be a good enough place to set up our time bomb." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm giving it four hours, said Haines." }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where, Burl whispered, suddenly troubled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something we haven't solved, Russ replied hurriedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "From what I remember of the masts, it looked as if they were relaying it somewhere else again." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The alarm's out for us, called Haines, making no effort to keep his voice down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've got to run for it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burl Denning! Can you hear me, Burl Denning?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burl Denning! If you can hear me, speak up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, he ventured weakly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who's calling?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Burl, are you all right? Where are you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm all right, I think, said Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that you, Russ? Sounds a little like you, but you must be far away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it's me, Russell Clyde, confirmed the voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think that Triton was originally Pluto's moon. When Pluto wandered into the solar system, it crossed Neptune's orbit and was held. Its moon came closer to Neptune and was captured completely. But Pluto, having a greater mass, didn't stick. It established an eccentric orbit of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What happened to you and Haines after we got separated?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know what happened to Haines, said Russ." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope he got away. But they trapped me. I was taken aboard one of their dumbbell ship...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think that collecting these specimens and setting them up here is part of the religion of the Sun-tappers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So that's it, breathed Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's where the Sun-tap energy is going. The Plutonians want Neptune because it's near their old moon, and they have to warm it up to live on it. Of course! And Neptune's too far from the Sun to explode whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's some sort of ceremony beginning here. There's a procession of Plutonians dressed in golden robes marching down the center of the hall, carrying staffs with moon pictures on them.... They're chanting in unison, though it sounds like barking. Can you hear it?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burl Denning calling the _Magellan_! He spoke at maximum power into his throat mike. Calling the _Magellan_! If you can hear me, reply!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Burl Denning! This is Lockhart. Give us your location." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wow! his voice came in Burl's earphones loud and clear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _Magellan_ calling Burl Denning! We have eliminated the last two enemy ships. Give us your location. We intend to A-bomb the installations on Triton as soon as we can pick you up!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold up the explosions, colonel. We've taken the pla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome, he said to them all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome to the solar system. We've got a lot to talk about." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burnt your soup a little to-night, mother." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A white man! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May the good Lord be praised! I have been watching you for hours, hoping against hope that THIS time there would be a white man. Tell me the date. What year is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gad! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ten degrees rise--it cannot be possible!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be seven hundred feet, Perry, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'd better lend me a hand then, my boy, he r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should think, Perry, I chided," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Death! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Death is it that appalls you? That is nothing by comparison with the loss the world must suffer. Why, David within this iron cylinder we have...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can we do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may stop here, and die of asphyxiation when our atmosphere tanks are empty, replied Perry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us continue on, then, I replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It should soon be over at this rate. You never intimated that the speed of this thing would be so high, Perry. Didn't you know it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he answered." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have shattered one theory at least," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are the readings now, David?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ninety miles and 153 degrees," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gad, but we've knocked that thirty-mile-crust theory into a cocked hat!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Precious lot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perry! I shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perry, man! She's going down! She's going down! She's 152 degrees again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gad! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can it mean? Can the earth be cold at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, David, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess this is the end," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, Perry, and good luck to you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, David, he cried at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It means that we're back at the surface all right, Perry, I cried;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You say we're back at the surface, David? How can that be? How long have I been unconscious?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something seems to have gone wrong either with our calculations or the chronometer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's have a look beyond that door, David," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where on earth can we be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "David, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not so sure that we are ON earth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean Perry? I cried." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A great light is commencing to break on me, continued Perry, taking out his watch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe that I have partially solved the riddle. It is now two o'clock. When we emerged from the prospector the sun was directly above us. Where is it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, Perry, where are we? I exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This thing is beginning to get on my nerves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think that I may state quite positively, David, he commenced," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perry! I cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear old Perry! Thank the Lord you are safe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "David! Can it be possible that you escaped?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With a tail, David, remarked Perry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe we can borrow a couple, I rejoined." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They seem to be quite the thing this season. I wonder what the creatures intend doing with us, Perry. They don't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This inner world must have cooled sufficiently to support animal life long ages after life appeared upon the outer crust, but that the same agencies were at work here is evident from the similar forms of both animal and vegetable creation which we have already seen. Take the gre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quite low in the scale of creation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite high enough to play the deuce with us, though, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now what do you suppose they intend doing with us?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How came you here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was running away from Jubal the Ugly One," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Jubal the Ugly One? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And why did you run away from him?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But Jubal, I insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me about him, and why you ran away to be chained by the neck and scourged across the face of a world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jubal the Ugly One placed his trophy before my father's house...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "David, he remarked, after we had marched for a long time beside that awful sea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "David, I used to teach geology, and I thought that I believed what I taught; but now I see that I did not believe it--that it is impossible for man to belie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hooja the Sly One, murmured Ghak, who was now next to me in line." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has taken the girl that you would not have," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That I would not have! I cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man of another world, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe you. Lips may lie, but when the heart speaks through the eyes it tells only the truth. Your heart has spoken to me. I know now that you meant no affront to Dian the Beautiful. She is not of my tr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not interrupt him, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is a very holy man in the world from which we come. He is speaking to spirits which you cannot see--do not interrupt him or they will spring out of the air upon you and rend you limb from limb--like that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A rhamphorhynchus of the Middle Olitic, David, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What they do, said Perry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You do not, Perry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perry, I confided to the old man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Diminutive world! he scoffed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know what you are talking about, my boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where within vast Pellucidar would you search for your Dian? Without stars, or moon, or changing sun how could you find her even though you knew where she might be found?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Ghak will accompany us we may be able to do it," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then Dian could have found her way directly to her own people?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely, replied Ghak," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would be murder, David," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Murder to kill a reptilian monster?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life within Pellucidar is far younger than upon the outer crust. Here man has but reached a stage analogous to the Stone Age of our own world's history, but for countless millions of years these reptiles have been progressing. Possibly it is the sixth sense which I am sure they ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, David, he concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well then, Perry. I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall become a murderer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "David, if we can escape, and at the same time take with us this great secret what will we not have accomplished for the human race within Pellucidar!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Perry, I exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "David, said the old man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe that God sent us here for just that purpose--it shall be my life work to teach them His word--to lead them into the light of His me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is there naught that we may do to save her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naught," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Bos, whispered Perry, excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His kind roamed the outer crust with the cave bear and the mammoth ages and ages ago. We have been carried back a million years, David, to the childhood of a planet--is it not wondrous?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want of my spear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only to keep you from running it through me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would not do that, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who are you, he continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are the Mezops? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where do they live?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great ones even come to our islands. It is there, far from the prying eyes of their own Sagoths, that they practice their religious rites in the temples they have builded there with our assistance. If you live among us you will doubtless see the manner of their worship, whic...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must hide our canoes, explained Ja," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are not supposed to visit it, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, added Ja," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are within the outer wall, said Ja." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is hollow. Follow me closely." } ]