The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: bruised and cut myself repeatedly in scrambling up its steep slope
of jagged blocks and fragments.
Then came the great disaster.
Just as I blindly crossed the summit, unprepared for the sudden
dip ahead, my feet slipped utterly and I found myself involved
in a mangling avalanche of sliding masonry whose cannon-loud uproar
split the black cavern air in a deafening series of earth-shaking
reverberations.
I have no recollection of emerging from this
chaos, but a momentary fragment of consciousness shows me as plunging
and tripping and scrambling along the corridor amidst the clangour
Shadow out of Time |