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"just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
"No," said the policeman placidly, "he has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter. Do come along."
For even the most dehumanised modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
"Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid."
The first was the old fear that any miracle might happen, the second the more hopeless modern fear that no miracle can ever happen.
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
As he gazed, the great face grew to an awful size, grew larger than the colossal mask of Memnon, which had made him scream as a child. It grew larger and larger, filling the whole sky; then everything went black. Only in the blackness before it entirely destroyed his brain he seemed to hear a distant voice saying a commonplace text that he had heard somewhere, "Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?"
