![]() ![]() ![]() He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade - that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter, and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench for ever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life. His success would terrify the artist he would rush away from his odious handiwork, horror-stricken. I saw - with shut eyes, but acute mental vision - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.įrightful must it be for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the creator of the world. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of reverie. When I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. Night waned upon this talk, and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest. ![]()
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