Damnation! There it was again! First "dexitroboping", and now this!
"One moment, please," Samms requested. "I fail to grasp the meaning of your thought."
"So I perceive. The fault is of course mine, in not being able to attune my mind fully to yours. Do not take this, please, as any aspersion upon the character or strength of your own mind."
"Of course not. I am the first Tellurian you have met?"
"Yes."
"I have exchanged thoughts with one other Palainian, and the same difficulty existed. I can neither understand nor explain it; but it is as though there are differences between us so fundamental that in some matters mutual comprehension is in fact impossible."
"A masterly summation and undoubtedly a true one. This emmfozing, then—if I read correctly, your race has only two sexes?"
"You read correctly."
"I cannot understand. There is no close analogy. However, emmfozing has to do with reproduction."
"I see," and Samms saw, not only a frankness brand-new to his experience, but also a new view of both the powers and the limitations of his Lens.