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…. “a moving shape appeared. He recognized it instantly as it moved slowly (and, he thought, stealthily) between two of the denuded plant-tops—the giant stature, the cadaverous leanness, the long, drooping, wizard-like profile of a sorn. The head appeared to be narrow and conical; the hands or paws with which it parted the stems before it as it moved were thin, mobile, spidery and almost transparent. He felt an immediate certainty that it was looking for him. All this he took in in an infinitesimal time. The ineffaceable image was hardly stamped on his brain before he was running as hard as he could into the thickest of the forest.”
This text describes Dr Elwin Ransom’s dramatic first visual encounter with a Sorn, a towering, intellectual alien species native to Malacandra (Mars). The passage is taken directly from Chapter 7 of C.S. Lewis’s 1938 science fiction classic, Out of the Silent Planet.
The Visual Anatomy of a Sorn

In the text, Lewis uses highly specific vocabulary to evoke the creature’s jarring, otherworldly aesthetic:
Context of the Scene
When Ransom sees this silhouette parting the denuded, tall stalks of Malacandrian plant life, he is gripped by intense panic. Having been kidnapped from Earth by the power-hungry scientists Weston and Devine, he erroneously believes the native Martian creatures are bloodthirsty monsters out to sacrifice him. Driven by this “ineffaceable image,” he flees blindly into the forest.
Ironically, Ransom later discovers that the Séroni (Sorns) are not hostile hunters at all. They are peaceful, deeply philosophical scholars who specialize in science and abstract learning, acting as the intellectual mainstays of Malacandra.
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Ark of flesh and blood
The work of Christus Dominus Studios
Below is link to Meditations on Psalms by the same studio. Very well done.
Psalms— Christus Dominus
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