 What does hatcher mean when he says, “to vibrate the atmosphere by means of resonating organs in his breathing passage.”
Whatever it was, he had no business in it; for five minutes before he had been spaceborne, on the Long Jump from Earth to the thriving colonies circling Betelgeuse Nine. "He then began to vibrate the atmosphere by means of resonating organs in his breathing passage. We've made the place homey for him—" actually, what he said was more like, we've warmed the biophysical nuances of his enclosure —"and tried to guess his needs; and we're frightening him half to death. A slit in the lower hemisphere of his body opened, like a purse, emitting a thin, pussy, fetid fluid which Hatcher caught and poured into a disposal trough at the side of the eating room.
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 To speak  To sigh  To panic  To breathe