Wednesday, June 19, 2013

opening statement written on brick cylinders

 

other sarnath near benares-varanasi

"there is in the land of mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and out of which no stream flows. ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore the mighty city of sarnath, but sarnath stands there no more. it is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, before ever the men of sarnath came to the land of mnar, another city stood beside the lake; the grey stone city of ib, which was old as the lake itself, ..."

h.p.lovecraft, the doom that came to sarnath.

 

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