My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time."Dagon" - Written July 1917 First published in The Vagrant, No.I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. " Dagon" - Written July 1917 First published in The Vagrant, No.Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. It is sufficient for me to relate events without analysing causes. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home." The Tomb" - Written June 1917 first published in The Vagrant, No.Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.
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