Lovecraft, H P & Berkely, Elizabeth - The Crawling Chaos

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The Crawling Chaos

by H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley

Written 1920/21

Published April 1921 in The United Co-operative, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 1-6.

Of the pleasures and pains of opium much has been written. The ecstasies and horrors of

De Quincey and the paradis artificiels of Baudelaire are preserved and interpreted with

an art which makes them immortal, and the world knows well the beauty, the terror and

the mystery of those obscure realms into which the inspired dreamer is transported. But

much as has been told, no man has yet dared intimate the nature of the phantasms thus

unfolded to the mind, or hint at the direction of the unheard-of roads along whose ornate

and exotic course the partaker of the drug is so irresistibly borne. De Quincey was drawn

back into Asia, that teeming land of nebulous shadows whose hideous antiquity is so

impressive that "the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the

individual," but farther than that he dared not go. Those who have gone farther seldom

returned, and even when they have, they have been either silent or quite mad. I took

opium but once -- in the year of the plague, when doctors sought to deaden the agonies

they could not cure. There was an overdose -- my physician was worn out with horror

and exertion -- and I travelled very far indeed. In the end I returned and lived, but my

nights are filled with strange memories, nor have I ever permitted a doctor to give me

opium again.

The pain and pounding in my head had been quite unendurable when the drug was

administered, Of the future I had no heed; to escape, whether by cure, unconsciousness,

or death, was all that concerned me. I was partly delirious, so that it is hard to place the

exact moment of transition, but I think the effect must have begun shortly before the

pounding ceased to be painful. As I have said, there was an overdose; so my reactions

were probably far from normal. The sensation of falling, curiously dissociated from the

idea of gravity or direction, was paramount; though there was subsidiary impression of

unseen throngs in incalculable profusion, throngs of infinitely di-verse nature, but all

more or less related to me. Sometimes it seemed less as though I were falling, than as

though the universe or the ages were falling past me. Suddenly my pain ceased, and I

began to associate the pounding with an external rather than internal force. The falling

had ceased also, giving place to a sensation of uneasy, temporary rest; and when I

listened closely, I fancied the pounding was that of the vast, inscrutable sea as its sinister,

colossal breakers lacerated some desolate shore after a storm of titanic magnitude. Then I

opened my eyes.

For a moment my surroundings seemed confused, like a projected image hopelessly out

of focus, but gradually I realised my solitary presence in a strange and beautiful room

lighted by many windows. Of the exact nature of the apartment I could form no idea, for

my thoughts were still far from settled, but I noticed van-coloured rugs and draperies,

elaborately fashioned tables, chairs, ottomans, and divans, and delicate vases and

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TheCrawlingChaosTheCrawlingChaosbyH.P.LovecraftandElizabethBerkeleyWritten1920/21PublishedApril1921inTheUnitedCo-operative,Vol.1,No.3,p.1-6.Ofthepleasuresandpainsofopiummuchhasbeenwritten.TheecstasiesandhorrorsofDeQuinceyandtheparadisartificielsofBaudelairearepreservedandinterpretedwithanartwhichmak...

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