90 AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL
[Unhappily our contributor returned alive from watch-
ing the start of the Paris-Madrid race. He had provided
himself with a copy of Mr Henley’s “ Imperishable Poem,”’
and the metre, in which there is but one rule, viz.
“anything scans,” seems to have run away with him.
Would the motor had done as the metre! He will be
printed as prose.—Ed.|
Filled with anticipations of the most blood-curdling
order, we sought the breezy heights of Montmartre. The
Sacré Coeur, looking more than ever like a compromise
between an Indian mosque and a Buzsard cake, towered
above us in the frosty twilight.
It is, however, invisible from the theatre itself, so that
we were able to give our undivided attention to the system
of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume, and it is our
interpretation alone which has any real value. It will
be necessary first to call the attention of the reader to
our own system, without some account of which he may
find himself embarrassed, even bewildered.
Mr George Macdonald in his masterpiece of Hag-
gardized Rabbinical tradition, “Lilith” (Off, Lilith !),}
has broken the wind of the poor phrase to this
effect:
“To grow and not to grow; to grow larger and to
grow smaller at one and the same time; yea, even to
grow by the simple process of not growing.”
In these unpretending and innocent.words lies hid (for
the eye of the wise to discover) the germ of the most
stupendous and far-reaching system of philosophy that has
1 The Qabalah.