"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed! Wait a minute! Someone's crawling out of the hollow top. Someone or...something. I can see peering out of that black hole two luminous disks. Are they eyes? It might be a face. It might be... [shout of awe from the crowd] Good heavens! Something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, another and another. They look like tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing's body. Now it's large, large as a bear and it glistens like wet leather. But that face, it... Ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable, I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it so awfully. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is... is kind of V-shaped, with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate. The monster or whatever it is can hardly move. It seems weighed down by... possibly gravity or something. The thing's raising up. The crowd falls back now. They've seen plenty. This is the most extraordinary experience, ladies and gentlemen. I can't find words. I'll pull this microphone with me as I talk. I'll have to stop the description until I can take a new position. Hold on, will you please? I'll be right back in a minute."
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