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msgid "Celephaïs"
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msgid "By H. P. Lovecraft"
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"In a dream Kuranes saw the city in the valley, and the sea-coast beyond, and "
"the snowy peak overlooking the sea, and the gaily painted galleys that sail "
"out of the harbour toward the distant regions where the sea meets the sky."
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" In a dream it was also that he came by his name of Kuranes, for when awake "
"he was called by another name."
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" Perhaps it was natural for him to dream a new name; for he was the last of "
"his family, and alone among the indifferent millions of London, so there "
"were not many to speak to him and remind him who he had been."
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" His money and lands were gone, and he did not care for the ways of people "
"about him, but preferred to dream and write of his dreams."
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" What he wrote was laughed at by those to whom he shewed it, so that after a "
"time he kept his writings to himself, and finally ceased to write."
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" The more he withdrew from the world about him, the more wonderful became "
"his dreams; and it would have been quite futile to try to describe them on "
"paper."
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msgid " Kuranes was not modern, and did not think like others who wrote."
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" Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to "
"shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that is reality, Kuranes sought for "
"beauty alone."
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" When truth and experience failed to reveal it, he sought it in fancy and "
"illusion, and found it on his very doorstep, amid the nebulous memories of "
"childhood tales and dreams."
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"There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the "
"stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and "
"dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to "
"remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life."
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" But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills "
"and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging "
"murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and "
"stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses "
"along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back "
"through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we "
"were wise and unhappy."
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msgid "Kuranes came very suddenly upon his old world of childhood."
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" He had been dreaming of the house where he was born; the great stone house "
"covered with ivy, where thirteen generations of his ancestors had lived, and "
"where he had hoped to die."
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" It was moonlight, and he had stolen out into the fragrant summer night, "
"through the gardens, down the terraces, past the great oaks of the park, and "
"along the long white road to the village."
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" The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had "
"commenced to wane, and Kuranes wondered whether the peaked roofs of the "
"small houses hid sleep or death."
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" In the streets were spears of long grass, and the window-panes on either "
"side were either broken or filmily staring."
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" Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some "
"goal."
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" He dared not disobey the summons for fear it might prove an illusion like "
"the urges and aspirations of waking life, which do not lead to any goal."
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" Then he had been drawn down a lane that led off from the village street "
"toward the channel cliffs, and had come to the end of things—to the "
"precipice and the abyss where all the village and all the world fell "
"abruptly into the unechoing emptiness of infinity, and where even the sky "
"ahead was empty and unlit by the crumbling moon and the peering stars."
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" Faith had urged him on, over the precipice and into the gulf, where he had "
"floated down, down, down; past dark, shapeless, undreamed dreams, faintly "
"glowing spheres that may have been partly dreamed dreams, and laughing "
"winged things that seemed to mock the dreamers of all the worlds."
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" Then a rift seemed to open in the darkness before him, and he saw the city "
"of the valley, glistening radiantly far, far below, with a background of sea "
"and sky, and a snow-capped mountain near the shore."
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"Kuranes had awaked the very moment he beheld the city, yet he knew from his "
"brief glance that it was none other than Celephaïs, in the Valley of Ooth-"
"Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills, where his spirit had dwelt all the "
"eternity of an hour one summer afternoon very long ago, when he had slipt "
"away from his nurse and let the warm sea-breeze lull him to sleep as he "
"watched the clouds from the cliff near the village."
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" He had protested then, when they had found him, waked him, and carried him "
"home, for just as he was aroused he had been about to sail in a golden "
"galley for those alluring regions where the sea meets the sky."
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" And now he was equally resentful of awaking, for he had found his fabulous "
"city after forty weary years."
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msgid "But three nights afterward Kuranes came again to Celephaïs."
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" As before, he dreamed first of the village that was asleep or dead, and of "
"the abyss down which one must float silently; then the rift appeared again, "
"and he beheld the glittering minarets of the city, and saw the graceful "
"galleys riding at anchor in the blue harbour, and watched the gingko trees "
"of Mount Aran swaying in the sea-breeze."
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" But this time he was not snatched away, and like a winged being settled "
"gradually over a grassy hillside till finally his feet rested gently on the "
"turf."
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" He had indeed come back to the Valley of Ooth-Nargai and the splendid city "
"of Celephaïs."
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"Down the hill amid scented grasses and brilliant flowers walked Kuranes, "
"over the bubbling Naraxa on the small wooden bridge where he had carved his "
"name so many years ago, and through the whispering grove to the great stone "
"bridge by the city gate."
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" All was as of old, nor were the marble walls discoloured, nor the polished "
"bronze statues upon them tarnished."
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" And Kuranes saw that he need not tremble lest the things he knew be "
"vanished; for even the sentries on the ramparts were the same, and still as "
"young as he remembered them."
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" When he entered the city, past the bronze gates and over the onyx "
"pavements, the merchants and camel-drivers greeted him as if he had never "
"been away; and it was the same at the turquoise temple of Nath-Horthath, "
"where the orchid-wreathed priests told him that there is no time in Ooth-"
"Nargai, but only perpetual youth."
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" Then Kuranes walked through the Street of Pillars to the seaward wall, "
"where gathered the traders and sailors, and strange men from the regions "
"where the sea meets the sky."
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" There he stayed long, gazing out over the bright harbour where the ripples "
"sparkled beneath an unknown sun, and where rode lightly the galleys from far "
"places over the water."
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" And he gazed also upon Mount Aran rising regally from the shore, its lower "
"slopes green with swaying trees and its white summit touching the sky."
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"More than ever Kuranes wished to sail in a galley to the far places of which "
"he had heard so many strange tales, and he sought again the captain who had "
"agreed to carry him so long ago."
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" He found the man, Athib, sitting on the same chest of spices he had sat "
"upon before, and Athib seemed not to realise that any time had passed."
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" Then the two rowed to a galley in the harbour, and giving orders to the "
"oarsmen, commenced to sail out into the billowy Cerenerian Sea that leads to "
"the sky."
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" For several days they glided undulatingly over the water, till finally they "
"came to the horizon, where the sea meets the sky."
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" Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the "
"sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose."
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" And far beneath the keel Kuranes could see strange lands and rivers and "
"cities of surpassing beauty, spread indolently in the sunshine which seemed "
"never to lessen or disappear."
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" At length Athib told him that their journey was near its end, and that they "
"would soon enter the harbour of Serannian, the pink marble city of the "
"clouds, which is built on that ethereal coast where the west wind flows into "
"the sky; but as the highest of the city’s carven towers came into sight "
"there was a sound somewhere in space, and Kuranes awaked in his London "
"garret."
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"For many months after that Kuranes sought the marvellous city of Celephaïs "
"and its sky-bound galleys in vain; and though his dreams carried him to many "
"gorgeous and unheard-of places, no one whom he met could tell him how to "
"find Ooth-Nargai, beyond the Tanarian Hills."
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" One night he went flying over dark mountains where there were faint, lone "
"campfires at great distances apart, and strange, shaggy herds with tinkling "
"bells on the leaders; and in the wildest part of this hilly country, so "
"remote that few men could ever have seen it, he found a hideously ancient "
"wall or causeway of stone zigzagging along the ridges and valleys; too "
"gigantic ever to have risen by human hands, and of such a length that "
"neither end of it could be seen."
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" Beyond that wall in the grey dawn he came to a land of quaint gardens and "
"cherry trees, and when the sun rose he beheld such beauty of red and white "
"flowers, green foliage and lawns, white paths, diamond brooks, blue "
"lakelets, carven bridges, and red-roofed pagodas, that he for a moment "
"forgot Celephaïs in sheer delight."
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" But he remembered it again when he walked down a white path toward a red-"
"roofed pagoda, and would have questioned the people of that land about it, "
"had he not found that there were no people there, but only birds and bees "
"and butterflies."
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" On another night Kuranes walked up a damp stone spiral stairway endlessly, "
"and came to a tower window overlooking a mighty plain and river lit by the "
"full moon; and in the silent city that spread away from the river-bank he "
"thought he beheld some feature or arrangement which he had known before."
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" He would have descended and asked the way to Ooth-Nargai had not a fearsome "
"aurora sputtered up from some remote place beyond the horizon, shewing the "
"ruin and antiquity of the city, and the stagnation of the reedy river, and "
"the death lying upon that land, as it had lain since King Kynaratholis came "
"home from his conquests to find the vengeance of the gods."
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"So Kuranes sought fruitlessly for the marvellous city of Celephaïs and its "
"galleys that sail to Serannian in the sky, meanwhile seeing many wonders and "
"once barely escaping from the high-priest not to be described, which wears a "
"yellow silken mask over its face and dwells all alone in a prehistoric stone "
"monastery on the cold desert plateau of Leng."
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" In time he grew so impatient of the bleak intervals of day that he began "
"buying drugs in order to increase his periods of sleep."
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" Hasheesh helped a great deal, and once sent him to a part of space where "
"form does not exist, but where glowing gases study the secrets of existence."
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" And a violet-coloured gas told him that this part of space was outside what "
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" The gas had not heard of planets and organisms before, but identified "
"Kuranes merely as one from the infinity where matter, energy, and "
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" Kuranes was now very anxious to return to minaret-studded Celephaïs, and "
"increased his doses of drugs; but eventually he had no more money left, and "
"could buy no drugs."
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" Then one summer day he was turned out of his garret, and wandered aimlessly "
"through the streets, drifting over a bridge to a place where the houses grew "
"thinner and thinner."
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" And it was there that fulfilment came, and he met the cortege of knights "
"come from Celephaïs to bear him thither forever."
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"Handsome knights they were, astride roan horses and clad in shining armour "
"with tabards of cloth-of-gold curiously emblazoned."
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" So numerous were they, that Kuranes almost mistook them for an army, but "
"their leader told him they were sent in his honour; since it was he who had "
"created Ooth-Nargai in his dreams, on which account he was now to be "
"appointed its chief god for evermore."
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" Then they gave Kuranes a horse and placed him at the head of the cavalcade, "
"and all rode majestically through the downs of Surrey and onward toward the "
"region where Kuranes and his ancestors were born."
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" It was very strange, but as the riders went on they seemed to gallop back "
"through Time; for whenever they passed through a village in the twilight "
"they saw only such houses and villages as Chaucer or men before him might "
"have seen, and sometimes they saw knights on horseback with small companies "
"of retainers."
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" When it grew dark they travelled more swiftly, till soon they were flying "
"uncannily as if in the air."
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" In the dim dawn they came upon the village which Kuranes had seen alive in "
"his childhood, and asleep or dead in his dreams."
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" It was alive now, and early villagers courtesied as the horsemen clattered "
"down the street and turned off into the lane that ends in the abyss of dream."
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" Kuranes had previously entered that abyss only at night, and wondered what "
"it would look like by day; so he watched anxiously as the column approached "
"its brink."
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" Just as they galloped up the rising ground to the precipice a golden glare "
"came somewhere out of the east and hid all the landscape in its effulgent "
"draperies."
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" The abyss was now a seething chaos of roseate and cerulean splendour, and "
"invisible voices sang exultantly as the knightly entourage plunged over the "
"edge and floated gracefully down past glittering clouds and silvery "
"coruscations."
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" Endlessly down the horsemen floated, their chargers pawing the aether as if "
"galloping over golden sands; and then the luminous vapours spread apart to "
"reveal a greater brightness, the brightness of the city Celephaïs, and the "
"sea-coast beyond, and the snowy peak overlooking the sea, and the gaily "
"painted galleys that sail out of the harbour toward distant regions where "
"the sea meets the sky."
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"And Kuranes reigned thereafter over Ooth-Nargai and all the neighbouring "
"regions of dream, and held his court alternately in Celephaïs and in the "
"cloud-fashioned Serannian."
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" He reigns there still, and will reign happily forever, though below the "
"cliffs at Innsmouth the channel tides played mockingly with the body of a "
"tramp who had stumbled through the half-deserted village at dawn; played "
"mockingly, and cast it upon the rocks by ivy-covered Trevor Towers, where a "
"notably fat and especially offensive millionaire brewer enjoys the purchased "
"atmosphere of extinct nobility."
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