And suddenly the open mouth of the tunnel down below there, shut like aneye and vanished out of sight.Then indeed was I alone.Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was theEternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs overthe end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is butthe thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, thestillness, the silence--the infinite and final Night of space.
She passes me with anunconscious... read more
