Read this excerpt the first men in the moon. for my own part a vivid dream has come to my , and i see, almost as plainly as though i had seen it in actual fact, a blue-lit shadowy disheveled cavor struggling in the grip of these insect selenites, struggling ever more desperately and hopelessly as they press upon him, shouting, expostulating, perhaps even at last fighting, and being forced backwards step by step out of all speech or sign of his fellows, for evermore into the unknown—into the dark, into that silence that has no end…. what is the meaning of the bold word, expostulating, as it is used above? examining something arguing against something shouting with joy surrendering to someone