![]() ![]() The first thing I thought was that I was in some sort of sacred precincts attached to some sort of idol-temple, where a number of old, semi-petrified, but still living teraphim or images, representing some sort of worship, were kept alive and fed. ![]() He laughed also, and we thought no more of the incident, but went and had our lunch.įor the first time in my life, I saw a number of beings who, from their poor, mis-shapen bodies or distorted countenances, seemed hardly human. I could not help laughing and remarking that the whole picture of a huge dead tree, with gaunt and whitened branches and a hollow trunk blasted by lightning, standing by itself amongst the reeds and oozy mud at the margin of a desolate swamp, and a large and deadly snake lying quivering in death across its gnarled and withered roots was peculiarly weird, almost Satanic. I was not quite certain at the time whether I was fully inside my body, or like a sort of atmosphere standing out about a quarter of an inch outside it. ![]() To begin with, I thought it was no use making a new start in life unless I began it with a really good hat. ![]()
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