|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: The whole business was most dangerous.
He came out, feeling clean and invigorated. For a time he walked up
and down the sands, drying himself in the hot sunshine and looking
around him. He was a naked stranger in a huge, foreign, mystical
world, and whichever way he turned, unknown and threatening forces
were glaring at him. The gigantic, white, withering Branchspell, the
awful, body-changing Alppain, the beautiful, deadly, treacherous sea,
the dark and eerie Swaylone's Island, the spirit-crushing forest out
of which he had just escaped - to all these mighty powers,
surrounding him on every side, what resources had he, a feeble,
ignorant traveller to oppose, from a tiny planet on the other side of
|
