And all that is necessary to break down the lattice, to shake us into nothingness, is some agent that will set our atoms vibrating at such a rate that at last they escape the unseen cords and fly off.
"The green ray of Yolara is such an agent.

It set up in the dwarf that incredibly rapid rhythm that you saw and--shook him not to atoms--but to electrons!" "They had a gun on the West Front--a seventy-five," said O'Keefe, "that broke the eardrums of everybody who fired it, no matter what protection they used.

It looked like all the other seventy-fives--but there was something about its sound that did it.

They had to recast it." "It's practically the same thing," I replied.

"By some freak its vibratory qualities had that effect.