It may possibly take us two or three hundred years more before we can control it." I wanted to ask questions, but could not because the cursed inharmony made my senses reel.

Nevertheless, you could hear other sounds perfectly.

When I struck my hand on the rock floor I could hear the slap at least as distinctly as normal; possibly a little more so.

And when the Gray Mahatma spoke, each word was separate and sharp.
"Now you shall hear another city," he said.

"Observe that the voices of cities are as various as men's.