uncouth and inarticulate sounds
This is the Creature's first sense of how he appears as a figure within a
natural order. It is not a pleasant discovery to find oneself a
discordant presence, but, as the ensuing paragraph relates, a kind of
natural logic helps this eight-foot anomalous being not to feel himself
divorced from the natural order. On the contrary, he seems
instinctively able to recognize his affinity with it, even down to what he
shares with beings as tiny as sparrows.
