Lovecraft, H P & Barlow, Robert - Collapsing Cosmoses

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Collapsing Cosmoses

by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow

[Note: Barlow's contributions are in brackets.]

Dam bor glued each of his six eyes to the lenses of the cosmoscope. His nasal tentacles

were orange with fear, and his antennae buzzed hoarsely as he dictated his report to the

operator behind him. "It has come!" he cried. "That blur in the ether can be nothing less

than a fleet from outside the space-time continuum we know. Nothing like this has ever

appeared before. It must be an enemy. Give the alarm to the Inter-Cosmic Chamber of

Commerce. There's no time to lose -- at this rate they'll be upon us in less than six

centuries. Hak Ni must have a chance to get the fleet in action at once."

[I glanced up from the Windy City Grab-Bag, which had beguiled my inactive peace-time

days in the Super-Galactic Patrol. The handsome young vegetable, with whom I shared

my bowl of caterpillar custard since earliest infancy, and with whom I had been thrown

out of every joint in the intradimensional city of Kastor-Ya,] had really a worried look

upon his lavender face. After he had given the alarm we jumped on our ether-bikes and

hastened across to the outer planet on which the Chamber held its sessions.

[Within the Great Council Chamber, which measured twenty-eight square feet (with quite

a high ceiling), were gathered delegates from all the thirty-seven galaxies of our

immediate universe. Oll Stof, President of the Chamber and representative of the

Milliner's Soviet, raised his eyeless snout with dignity] and prepared to address the

assembled multitude. He was a highly developed protozoan organism from Nov-Kos, and

spoke by emitting alternate waves of heat and cold.

["Gentlemen," he radiated, "a terrible peril has come upon us which I feel I must bring to

your attention."

Everybody applauded riotously, as a wave of excitement rippled through the variegated

audience; those who were handless slithering their tentacles together.

He continued: "Hak Ni, crawl upon the dais!"

There was a thunderous silence, during which a faint prompting was heard] from the

dizzy summit of the platform. [Hak Ni, the yellow-furred and valorous commander of our

ranks through numerous installments, ascended to the towering peak inches above the

floor.

"My friends -- " he began, with an eloquent scraping of his posterior limbs, "these

treasured walls and pillars shall not mourn on my account...." At this point, one of his

numerous relatives cheered. "Well do I remember when..."

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