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msgid "The Book"
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msgid "By H. P. Lovecraft"
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msgid "My memories are very confused."
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" There is even much doubt as to where they begin; for at times I feel "
"appalling vistas of years stretching behind me, while at other times it "
"seems as if the present moment were an isolated point in a grey, formless "
"infinity."
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msgid " I am not even certain how I am communicating this message."
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" While I know I am speaking, I have a vague impression that some strange and "
"perhaps terrible mediation will be needed to bear what I say to the points "
"where I wish to be heard."
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msgctxt "15a32b8700b85f6435f1bd279fc9734f"
msgid " My identity, too, is bewilderingly cloudy."
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" I seem to have suffered a great shock—perhaps from some utterly monstrous "
"outgrowth of my cycles of unique, incredible experience."
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"These cycles of experience, of course, all stem from that worm-riddled book."
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" I remember when I found it—in a dimly lighted place near the black, oily "
"river where the mists always swirl."
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" That place was very old, and the ceiling-high shelves full of rotting "
"volumes reached back endlessly through windowless inner rooms and alcoves."
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" There were, besides, great formless heaps of books on the floor and in "
"crude bins; and it was in one of these heaps that I found the thing."
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" I never learned its title, for the early pages were missing; but it fell "
"open toward the end and gave me a glimpse of something which sent my senses "
"reeling."
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"There was a formula—a sort of list of things to say and do—which I "
"recognised as something black and forbidden; something which I had read of "
"before in furtive paragraphs of mixed abhorrence and fascination penned by "
"those strange ancient delvers into the universe’s guarded secrets whose "
"decaying texts I loved to absorb."
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" It was a key—a guide—to certain gateways and transitions of which mystics "
"have dreamed and whispered since the race was young, and which lead to "
"freedoms and discoveries beyond the three dimensions and realms of life and "
"matter that we know."
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" Not for centuries had any man recalled its vital substance or known where "
"to find it, but this book was very old indeed."
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" No printing-press, but the hand of some half-crazed monk, had traced these "
"ominous Latin phrases in uncials of awesome antiquity."
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"I remember how the old man leered and tittered, and made a curious sign with "
"his hand when I bore it away."
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" He had refused to take pay for it, and only long afterward did I guess why."
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msgid ""
" As I hurried home through those narrow, winding, mist-choked waterfront "
"streets I had a frightful impression of being stealthily followed by softly "
"padding feet."
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" The centuried, tottering houses on both sides seemed alive with a fresh and "
"morbid malignity—as if some hitherto closed channel of evil understanding "
"had abruptly been opened."
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" I felt that those walls and overhanging gables of mildewed brick and "
"fungous plaster and timber—with fishy, eye-like, diamond-paned windows that "
"leered—could hardly desist from advancing and crushing me . . ."
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" yet I had read only the least fragment of that blasphemous rune before "
"closing the book and bringing it away."
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"I remember how I read the book at last—white-faced, and locked in the attic "
"room that I had long devoted to strange searchings."
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" The great house was very still, for I had not gone up till after midnight."
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" I think I had a family then—though the details are very uncertain—and I "
"know there were many servants."
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" Just what the year was, I cannot say; for since then I have known many ages "
"and dimensions, and have had all my notions of time dissolved and "
"refashioned."
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" It was by the light of candles that I read—I recall the relentless dripping "
"of the wax—and there were chimes that came every now and then from distant "
"belfries."
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" I seemed to keep track of those chimes with a peculiar intentness, as if I "
"feared to hear some very remote, intruding note among them."
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"Then came the first scratching and fumbling at the dormer window that looked "
"out high above the other roofs of the city."
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" It came as I droned aloud the ninth verse of that primal lay, and I knew "
"amidst my shudders what it meant."
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" For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he "
"be alone."
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msgctxt "e34f05dede9a64bd81d7cc7870600e83"
msgid " I had evoked—and the book was indeed all I had suspected."
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" That night I passed the gateway to a vortex of twisted time and vision, and "
"when morning found me in the attic room I saw in the walls and shelves and "
"fittings that which I had never seen before."
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msgid "Nor could I ever after see the world as I had known it."
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" Mixed with the present scene was always a little of the past and a little "
"of the future, and every once-familiar object loomed alien in the new "
"perspective brought by my widened sight."
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" From then on I walked in a fantastic dream of unknown and half-known "
"shapes; and with each new gateway crossed, the less plainly could I "
"recognise the things of the narrow sphere to which I had so long been bound."
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" What I saw about me none else saw; and I grew doubly silent and aloof lest "
"I be thought mad."
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" Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my "
"side."
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" But still I read more—in hidden, forgotten books and scrolls to which my "
"new vision led me—and pushed through fresh gateways of space and being and "
"life-patterns toward the core of the unknown cosmos."
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"I remember the night I made the five concentric circles of fire on the "
"floor, and stood in the innermost one chanting that monstrous litany the "
"messenger from Tartary had brought."
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" The walls melted away, and I was swept by a black wind through gulfs of "
"fathomless grey with the needle-like pinnacles of unknown mountains miles "
"below me."
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" After a while there was utter blackness, and then the light of myriad stars "
"forming strange, alien constellations."
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" Finally I saw a green-litten plain far below me, and discerned on it the "
"twisted towers of a city built in no fashion I had ever known or read of or "
"dreamed of."
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" As I floated closer to that city I saw a great square building of stone in "
"an open space, and felt a hideous fear clutching at me."
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" I screamed and struggled, and after a blankness was again in my attic room, "
"sprawled flat over the five phosphorescent circles on the floor."
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" In that night’s wandering there was no more of strangeness than in many a "
"former night’s wandering; but there was more of terror because I knew I was "
"closer to those outside gulfs and worlds than I had ever been before."
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" Thereafter I was more cautious with my incantations, for I had no wish to "
"be cut off from my body and from the earth in unknown abysses whence I could "
"never return."
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