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…happy, things holy! every one unspeakably defiled, loathsome, sickening! During the vigil of the day following I recognized one group. I saw Italy. First the Italy of the map, a booted leg. But this leg changed rapidly through myriad phases. It was in turn the leg of every beast and bird, and in every case each leg was suffering with all diseases from leprosy and elephantiasis to scrofula and syphilis. There was also the consciousness that this was inalienably and for ever part of Arthur. Then Italy itself, in every detail foul. Then I myself, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…e would undress with a certain unction. Once even he at- temptedwith the aid of a bath towelto take the pose before the mirror. And he saw nothing ridiculous in that, just as he saw nothing beautiful in the photograph. Na- kedness is lust: so ran his simple gospel of aesthetics. Shame quickened him, too, to measures of expiation or precaution. He read family prayers twice a day in- stead of once, and he took the chair at the Annual Meet- ing of a Society for Sending Out Trousers to Converted Hindoos. As everybody in the Midlands knows, Hindo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…- periments again. My powers had returned, and in triple force. Arthur explained my intuition as follows: The doc- tor (when you last saw him) did not know consciously that he had cancer; but subconsciously Nature gave warning. You read this subconsciously, and it sprang into your consciousness when you read on the nurse's face that he was ill. This, farfetched as it may seem, at least avoids the shallow theories about telepathy. From this time my powers constantly increased. I could read my husband's thoughts from imperceptible movements…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
… old legends, and far more I told Doctor Kershaw that I was carrying out Ar- thur's last wishes. He raised no further opposition; but I saw him sign to the male nurse to keep an eye on me. The sick mans finger beckoned us. He could not speak; he traced circles on the counterpane. The doctor (with characteristic intelligence) having counted the cir- cles, nodded; and said: Yes, it is nearly seven oclock.
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…hung for a sheep as a lamb I'll go the whole hog. I know there's shops about here. So, turning, in his excitement and determination, he saw when you invoke the devil he is usually half-way to youa shop window full of photographs of the pictures and sculptures of the Louvre. He looked up and down the streetthe sight of a top hat might have saved him even at the eleventh hour. But no! nothing that looked in the least like an Englishman, even to his overheated fear of discovery. He peered and dodged about for a little like a man stalking danger…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…he end of the October term. He was lecturing as usual, I was at home, lethargic after a too heavy breakfast following a wakeful night. I saw suddenly a picture of the lecture-room, enormously greater than in reality, so that it filled all space; and in the rostrum, bulging over it in all direc-
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…mistakable token of friendship. That day no further opportunity of intercourse occurred, but I nar- rowly watched him on the morrow, and saw that he was
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…ing. She had withdrawn as one who comes suddenly upon a toad, and the first flaming of her face had died instantly to deadlier ice. Bugg saw his mistake, his masses of mistakes. There being but one more to make, he made it; and, finding himself in the frying-pan of discovery, leapt into the fire of things irrevocable and not to be forgotten. His fat, heavy-jowled, coarse face all twitching, he fell on his knees and clasped his hands together. So you found me out? Don't, don't give away your poor old father, Gertie! My little Gertie! There was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…n the wrong place, said he suddenly, but very quietly and without moving. The thing I want lies at the base of the spine. This time I saw. In a blue heaven was coiled an infi- nite snake of gold and green, with four eyes of fire, black fire and red, that darted rays in every direction; held within its coils was a great multitude of laughing children. And even as I looked, all this was blotted out. Crawling rivers of blood spread over the heaven, of blood purulent with nameless formsmangy dogs with
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…he had been afraid of being buried alive, anything that might induce him to remove the brain. At that moment I looked into the mirror, I saw that I must not speak. My hair was white, my face drawn, my eyes wild and bloodshot. In utter helplessness and misery I flung myself on the couch in the study, and puffed greedily at cigarettes.