In dim ways this need for united action was impressed upon us.

But there was no way to achieve it because there was no way to express it.

We did not turn to, all of us, and destroy Red-Eye, because we lacked a vocabulary.

We were vaguely thinking thoughts for which there were no thought-symbols.

These thought-symbols were yet to be slowly and painfully invented.
We tried to freight sound with the vague thoughts that flitted like shadows through our consciousness.