Excerpt from The Source: A Novel Our men were loading 'a flat-car. They worked in pairs, going two by two into an adjacent shed to reappear with an Object similar to a sack of flour between them - only the object was longer and somewhat Iimper. They would then approach the car, swing their burden back and forth a time or two to gain momentum, and hurl it with enthusiasm to the planking of the car. Sometimes the load lay perfectly still where it fell - sometimes it twitched uneasily or gave forth sound similar to human grunt or groan. The burdens possessed other points of similarity to humankind. For instance, each had two arms and two legs, each had shoulders which continued upward into something unpleasant to see which might have been compared to a human head. There the similarity ended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.