So might Parmenides or Confucius look to the eyes of a Cockney schoolboy!" He had thought them spectral when they were only august, and his first human reaction to their lengthened severity of line and profound stillness of expression now appeared to him not so much cowardly as vulgar.
Even the faces, it seemed to him, he had not then seen aright. Spooks on stilts, he said to himself surrealistic bogey-men with their long faces.Ogres' he had called them when they first met his eyes as he struggled in the grip of Weston and Devine 'Titans' or 'Angels' he now thought would have been a better word. Giants - ogres - ghosts - skeletons: those were its key words. They appealed away from the Wellsian fantasies to an earlier, almost an infantile, complex of fears. " They were quite unlike the horrors his imagination had conjured up, and for that reason had taken him off his guard. Like the hrossa, the séroni are an object lesson to Ransom in how not to judge: Its eyes, like those of all very large creatures, seemed too small for it. took a good deal of getting used to-it was too long, too solemn and too colourless, and it was much more unpleasantly like a human face than any inhuman creature's face ought to be. Ransom is at first scared of the séroni due to their appearance, and it takes a while to get beyond this prejudice:
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