''sometime in the 1960s i was cruising at night off some point of arabia. in the interior not far away was the ruined castle of orbutum. there were stories that somewhere along this coast were the lost mines of king solomon. mysterious lights shone in the sky above the castle, ... i persuaded the captain that we should search in the ruins.''
graham greene, a world of my own.
bon barde gives zenig the acajou treatment at skulladay.
''you have come to see the great ones whom it is unlawful for men to see. ... when barzai the wise climbed hatheg-kla to see the greater ones dance and howl above the clouds in the moonlight he never returned. the other gods were there, and they did what was expected. zenig of aphorat sought to reach unknown kadath in the cold waste, and his skull is now set in a ring on the little finger of one whom i need not name."h.p.lovecraft, the dream quest of unknown kadath.
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