1894, Book , 234 pages ; . I have always been firmly opposed myself to any partnership between physiology and psychology. Mr. Charles Salisbury happens to run into his friend Dyson one night in London. Dyson hailed a passing hansom, and Salisbury turned northward to walk home to his lodgings. Salisbury turned away in disgust, and settled himself in the easy-chair, upholstered in a bright shade of green, and decked with yellow gimp, which was the pride and attraction of the apartments. Even a stray drop or two of rain blown into his face did not rouse him from his meditations, and it was only when with a sudden rush the storm tore down upon the street that he began to consider the expediency of finding some shelter. Salisbury looked out after him and saw him maundering along the pavement, halting now and then and swaying indecisively, and then starting off at some fresh tangent. The Inmost Light Arthur Machen Novel | English | 27/03/14 Synopsis One evening in autumn, when the deformities of London were veiled in faint blue mist, and its vistas and far-reaching streets seemed splendid, Mr. Charles Salisbury was slowly pacing down Rupert Street, drawing nearer to his favourite restaurant by slow degrees. Dyson looked up again, this time at the corner of the wall above the lamp-post, and read in white letters on a blue ground the words 'Handel Street, W. C.,' and the legend was repeated in fainter letters just below. Official lyric video for 'The Inmost Light (feat. The man shrank and shrivelled in terror, the sweat poured down a face of ashy white, and he held up his hands before him. And the provoking part of it is that it's the merest nonsensebut, however, I will tell you all about it, by and by. An uncle died, and proved unexpectedly generous. The sky had cleared, and white fleecy clouds were fleeting across the moon, high in the heaven. Dyson made his way slowly along, mingling with the crowd on the cobble-stones, listening to the queer babel of French and German, and Italian and English, glancing now and again at the shop-windows with their levelled batteries of bottles, and had almost gained the end of the street, when his attention was arrested by a small shop at the corner, a vivid contrast to its neighbours. ', A good many hours after Salisbury had returned to the company of the green rep chairs, Dyson still sat at his desk, itself a Japanese romance, smoking many pipes, and meditating over his friend's story. And then a thin white flame burst forth from the smoke, and shot up into the air and vanished; and on the ground there lay a thing like a cinder, black and crumbling to the touch. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. .read more View All Available Formats & Editions. What an admirable salmi this is; undoubtedly the final end of the pheasant. 'What do you think of it? Soft grass is very grateful to the feet after the infernal grit strewn on suburban sidewalks, and after walking about for some time I thought I should like to sit down on a bank and have a smoke. The two men went out in silence, and stood a moment in the cool air, watching the hurrying traffic of Coventry Street pass before them to the accompaniment of the ringing bells of hansoms and the cries of the newsboys; the deep far murmur of London surging up ever and again from beneath these louder noises. When at last he held it in his hand, and turned the pages, he found that the first two leaves were blank, but the third was covered with clear, minute writing, and Dyson began to read with the light of the opal flaming in his eyes. 'Traverse Handle S. "Once around the grass, and twice around the lass, and thrice around the maple tree."'. $15.99. Of course I rescued the hat, and gave it a glance as I went towards its owner. The, , Machen, Arthur, Buch The light came and went by turns, as the clouds passed by, and, turning round as the clear, white rays shone into the passage, Salisbury saw the little ball of crumpled paper which the woman had cast down. CallOfTheWildIbiblio Call of the Wild My Adventures with Your Money More E. K. Means The Great God Pan Illustrated The Girl from Alsace Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena Read Lore. His eyes were downcast in study of the pavement, and thus it was that as he passed in at the narrow door a man who had come up from the lower end of the street jostled against him. With many hesitations, and with much inward resentment of the folly of the thing, Salisbury told his tale, and repeated reluctantly the absurd intelligence and the absurder doggerel of the scrap of paper, expecting to hear Dyson burst out into a roar of laughter. So long as I could gratify my desire of knowledge of a peculiar kind, knowledge of which the very existence is a profound secret to most men, I was intensely happy, and I have often spent whole nights sitting in the darkness of my room, and thinking of the strange world on the brink of which I trod. Michael Kiske)', taken from the new AVANTASIA album: https://avantasia.bfan.link/APEWTMS.yde SUBSCRIBE to NUCLEAR BLAST: http://nblast.de/NBytb. Dyson let the little pocket-book fall, and turned and looked again at the opal with its flaming inmost light, and then with unutterable irresistible horror surging up in his heart, grasped the jewel, and flung it on the ground, and trampled it beneath his heel. And another man before that. 3.2 . There was an angry hiss, as of steam escaping under great pressure, and as he gazed, motionless, a volume of heavy yellow smoke was slowly issuing from the very centre of the jewel, and wreathing itself in snake-like coils above it. How many lives now? "Well, you must remember that the Harlesden case was very peculiar. I must be going now, Dyson. Once home, Dyson opens the box. Summary; Recently Viewed; Bids/Offers; Watch List; Purchase History; Selling; Saved Searches; Saved Sellers; My Garage; Messages; Collect & Spend Learn more. But I am afraid, Salisbury, you are incorrigible. It was a positive relief when Thursday came, and he remembered that he had made an appointment to go and see Dyson; the flimsy reveries of the self-styled man of letters appeared entertaining when compared with this ceaseless iteration, this maze of thought from which there seemed no possibility of escape. How could that be?" Yet, I will tell you that as I did my work, the knife in my hand, I felt convinced, in spite of all theories, that what lay before me was not the brain of a dead womannot the brain of a human being at all. He gave a little sigh of satisfaction, and without more ado walked boldly into the shop, and stared full in the face the fat man who was sitting behind the counter. And yet, to put the doctor's opinion on one side, I knew what I had seen. Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes. As fate or my luck would have it, the door opened and a man came down the steps as I passed by. Lovecraft, who cites Machen as what led him down . ', 'Yes; that is an accurate copy. When he got home, drenched to the skin, his clothes hanging lank about him, and a ghastly dew besmearing his hat, his only thought was of his health, of which he took studious care. I believe that both are bound to suffer. His face was white with terror as he turned away, and for a moment stood sick and trembling, and then with a start he leapt across the room and steadied himself against the door. To describe the poor neighborhoods of London as a backwoods not only conjures images of the backwoods or frontiers of early America, but it also takes on a racial tone. $15.99. ', 'Ah, I see. Because the two were school friends, they decide to share a bottle of wine in a local restaurant and exchange stories. It has a velvet back, you know. In the middle of theroadway a strange miscellany of nations sauntered to and fro, for therecab and hansom rarely ventured; and from window over window the in-habitants looked forth in pleased contemplation of the scene. It was a Sunday afternoon, one of those few exquisite days that an English climate offers, and half London had strayed out into the fields, north, south, east, and west to smell the scent of the white May, and to see if the wild roses were yet in blossom in the hedges. He was a strange man, and as we sat together smoking, I often wondered whether he were mad or sane, for I think the wildest dreams of Paracelsus and the Rosicrucians would appear plain and sober fact compared with the theories I have heard him earnestly advance in that grimy den of his. Good. The few stray passengers who had been loafing rather than walking about the street had scuttered away, like frightened rabbits, to some invisible places of refuge, and though Salisbury whistled loud and long for a hansom, no hansom appeared. Reiter's thesis is twofold: (1) that critics have seen Machen's fiction, written during a career of around forty-five years, as something all of which may be interpreted in the light of Machen's lit-crit book Hieroglyphics (written 1899); and that (2) it will be more profitable to consider Machen's writing as showing changes in his concerns and It seems to me a dull place enough. coll: Aubrey Beardsley: The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light: He went out into the streets, and tried to forget his enemy in the jostling of the crowds and the roar and clatter of the traffic, but presently he would find himself stealing quietly aside, and pacing some deserted byway, vainly puzzling his brains, and trying to fix some meaning to phrases that were meaningless. Keeping back in the shadow of the wall, he could see the two drawing nearer; the man was evidently drunk, and had much ado to avoid frequent collision with the wall as he tacked across from one side to the other, like some bark beating up against a wind. It must have been a beautiful face, no doubt, but I can honestly say that I would not have looked in that face when there was life behind it for a thousand guineas, no, nor for twice that sum. He came back presently with a small package neatly tied up in brown paper in his hands, and, still full of terror, handed it to Dyson. The fact is I had an odd kind ofofadventure, I suppose I may call it, that night I saw you, and it has worried me a good deal. '"I suppose you are not a man of science yourself? That's right; try some of this tobacco. 24/31. It's really quite a simple matter if you only look at it like that. Good-night. The jewel was like an opal, but from a long experience of the shop-windows he knew there was no such thing as an opal one-quarter or one-eighth of its size. No, we had done with that. [1] With respect to the philosophy of left-hand path and right-hand path, black magic is the malicious counterpart of benevolent white magic. Join LibraryThing to post. 'Let me see,' he said at last, 'we were at the inquest, weren't we? The Inmost Light and Other Tales: Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Shea Taylor. In the 1920s Machen resorted to humor and satire to convey his dissatisfaction with the increasing secularization of his era, which he felt was robbing the imagination of wonder and mystery. I think I remember your telling me that you owed five weeks' rent, and that you had parted with your watch for a comparatively small sum. The waiters are staring at us. From her look I fancy she took me for a plain-clothes officer after one of her lodgers, but when I inquired if Mr. Black were in, she gave me a stare of another kind. ', 'Well, Dyson, I must say that I think you have contrived to surround the whole thing with a mystery of your own making. Yes, I was hard up. As he walked he speculated on the probable fate of Dyson, relying on literature, unbefriended by a thoughtful relative, and could not help concluding that so much subtlety united to a too vivid imagination would in all likelihood have been rewarded with a pair of sandwich-boards or a super's banner. You are a slave to what you call matter of fact. He locked his door, and cut the strings, and unfolded the paper layer after layer, and came at last to a small wooden box, simply but solidly made. What an admirable salmi this us; undoubtedly the final end of the pheasant. He just glanced at the slip, and gave me a queer look. That night she came down to my laboratory, and there, with shutters bolted and barred down, with curtains drawn thick and close, so that the very stars might be shut out from the sight of that room, while the crucible hissed and boiled over the lamp, I did what had to be done, and led out what was no longer a woman. Well, I give you a minute by your own clock.'. Here's the address. But suppose we go in; there might be other people who would like to dineit's a human weakness, Salisbury. The Inmost Light, one of Arthur Machen's most disturbing stories, involves a doctor's scientific experiments into occultism, and the vampiric force instigated by his unrelenting curiosity regarding the unseen elements. Jan 10, 2021, 1:23pm "The Inmost Light" by Arthur Machen Discussion begins on January 13, 2021. Add to Cart A gusty day, sir, isn't it?" For there upon a bed of soft wool lay the most splendid jewel, a jewel such as Dyson had never dreamed of, and within it shone the blue of far skies, and the green of the sea by the shore, and the red of the ruby, and deep violet rays, and in the middle of all it seemed aflame as if a fountain of fire rose up, and fell, and rose again with sparks like stars for drops. Hardcover. He used to go out every morning from ten till one, and one Monday morning we heard him come in, and go into his room and shut the door, and a few minutes after, just as we was a-sitting down to our dinner, there was such a scream that I thought I should have gone right off. I have always considered it in the light of an endowment of my researches. Not to put too fine a point on it, I have had to confess that what I found out, or thought I found out, amounts in reality to nothing. Nothing disagreed with you, has it? But I stick to my opinion, mind you, and I say this also. Remember, I hold your life in my hands. I take it that he had very little to fear on that score, poor fellow; but I suppose that he was really mad, and died in a sudden access of his mania. Soon he found himself in streets that echoed to his footsteps, and crossing a broad new thoroughfare, and verging still to the west, Dyson discovered that he had penetrated to the depths of Soho. Paperback. Wasn't that where I left off? Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and ar You heard what I said perfectly well. In short, I found myself in a world of mystery; I puzzled my head over it and filled up my leisure moments by gathering together odd threads of speculation, but I never moved a step towards any real solution, and as the summer days went on the matter seemed to grow misty and indistinct, shadowing some vague terror, like a nightmare of last month. 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