|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: day they came in sight of the isle of Oriab with Ngranek rising
jagged and snow-crowned in the distance. Oriab is a very great
isle, and its port of Bahama a mighty city. The wharves of Bahama
are of porphyry, and the city rises in great stone terraces behind
them, having streets of steps that are frequently arched over
by buildings and the bridges between buildings. There is a great
canal which goes under the whole city in a tunnel with granite
gates and leads to the inland lake of Yath, on whose farther shore
are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not
remembered. As the ship drew into the harbour at evening the twin
beacons Thon and Thal gleamed a welcome, and in all the million
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
