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I began to be irritated by the way in which my body was propelling itself forward in complete disregard to any objective. It is absurd enough to find yourself on your way somewhere or another without wishing to reach any such place, but to travel like an automaton to an unknown destination appeared to me to be unhealthy and ludicrous.

It led on and on; vistas of forgotten metal; moribund, stiff in a thousand attitudes of mortality; with not a rat, not a mouse; not a bat, not a spider. Only the Lamb, sitting in his high chair with a faint smile upon his lips; alone in the luxury of his vaulted chamber, where the red carpet was like blood, and the walls were lined with books that rose up...up...volume after volume until the shadows engulfed them.