a study in xenogamy

'' science, already opressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate extermiator of our species--if seperate species we be ... if we knew what we are, we should do as sir arthur jermyn did, ... arthur jermyn went out on the moor and burned himself after seeing the boxed object which had come from africa ...

'' the boxed object was delivered at jermyn house on the afternoon of august 3,1913, being conveyed immediately to the large chamber ... sir arthur jermyn dismissed everyone from the room before opening the box, though the instant sound of hammer and chisel showed that he did not delay the operation ... less than a quarter of an hour later that the horrible scream, undoubtedly in jermyn's voice; was heard ...

'' immediately afterward jermyn emerged from the room, rushing frantically toward the front of the house as if pursued by some hideous enemy ... finally disappearing down the stairs to the cellar. ... a smell of oil was all that came up from the regions below ... a stable boy saw arthur jermyn, glistening from head to foot with oil and redolant of that fluid, steal furtively out and vanish on the black moor, ... a spark appeared on the moor, a flame arose, and a pillar of human fire reached the the heavens. the house of jermyn no longer existed ...

'' the reason why arthur jermyn's charred fragments were not collected and buried lies in what was found afterward, principally the thing in the box ... it was clearly a mummified white ape of some unknown species, less hairy than any recorded variety, and infinitely nearer mankind--quite shockingly so ... members of the royal anthropological institute burned the thing ... and some of them do not admit that arthur jermyn ever existed.''

h.p.lovecraft, arthur jermyn.

i: ancestor worship at the upright ape.