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IV. The Darkness that is Under the Earth
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There is an unconsciousness that is not wholly dead, where a man feels numbly1 and the body lives without the brain. I was beyond speech or thought, and yet I felt the upward or downward motion as ‘the way lay in hill or glen, and I most assuredly knew when the open air was changed for the close underground. I could feel dimly that lights were flared3 in my face, and that I was laid in some bed on the earth. Then with the stopping of movement the real sleep of weakness seized me, and for long I knew nothing of this mad world.
Morning came over the moors4 with bird-song and the glory of fine weather. The streams were still rolling in spate5, but the hill-pastures were alight with dawn, and the little seams of snow glistened6 like white fire. A ray from the sunrise cleft7 its path somehow into the abyss, and danced on the wall above my couch. It caught my eye as I wakened, and for long I lay crazily wondering what it meant. My head was splitting with pain, and in my heart was the same fluttering nameless fear. I did not wake to full consciousness; not till the twinkle of sun from the clean bright out-of-doors caught my senses did I realise that I lay in a great dark place with a glow of dull firelight in the middle.
In time things rose and moved around me, a few ragged8 shapes of men, without clothing, shambling with their huge feet and looking towards me with curved beast-like glances. I tried to marshal my thoughts, and slowly, bit by bit, I built up the present. There was no question to my mind of dreaming; the past hours had scored reality upon my brain. Yet I cannot say that fear was my chief feeling. The first crazy terror had subsided9, and now I felt mainly a sickened disgust with just a tinge10
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