The word constituting the individual designation of the group of people connected by blood to my male parent being Pirrip, and the word constituting the individual designation of myself and given to me in baptism Philip, the blunt, tapering, muscular, soft fleshy organ situated on the floor of my mouth, important in articulating speech being in the earliest stage of its development could produce by combinations of parts of, or by modification of the one and the other word constituting individual designation not any thing greater in measurement from end to end or in greater degree expressing all that is meant than Pip. In consequence, I gave myself the name of Pip, and it occurred in due course that I was addressed as Pip.
I report the word constituting the individual designation of the group of people connected by blood to my male parent to be Pirrip, on the power to inspire belief of the monument placed as a memorial over his place of burial, and the female related to me by having at least one parent in common – Mrs Joe Gargery, who took as her husband a person who works a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26). Owing to the fact that at no time or moment had I perceived with my eyes my male parent or my female parent, and at no time or moment had I perceived with my eyes any visual representation of either of the persons previously mentioned (for the time during which they existed had place in the realm of fact a great extent earlier in time than the time during which pictures and other images obtained by the chemical reaction of light or other radiation on specially sensitised material such as film or glass existed), the suppositions with no solid basis preceding in time all others which pertain to me in relation to what characteristics and qualities the people previously mentioned had, were in a manner not in accordance with good sense obtained by reasoning from the monuments placed as memorials over their places of burial. The total effect produced by the outline of the characters representing one or more of the elementary sounds of the speech of a language covering my male parent's, imparted to me a peculiar product of mental activity existing in the mind that he had the qualities of an adult male person approximately cubic in shape, inclined to corpulence, reflecting or transmitting little light, with fine flexible keratinised filaments, colourless from the absence or complete absorption of light, growing from beneath his skin in spiral or coiled forms. From the collective peculiarities and particular manner of linguistic expression of the letters written upon the stone so as to be conspicuous or durable, 'In Addition Georgiana Female Mate of the Further Up', I obtained a judgement arrived at by reasoning but not befitting mature age that my female parent had the quality of being marked with light brown patches on the skin and was habitually affected by ill health. To one more than four small-sized hard compact mineral diamond-shaped figures placed with their longer axes vertical, each somewhere near the length of the terminal part of a leg below the ankle-joint plus the length of either of the two equal parts into which the terminal part of a leg below the ankle-joint may be divided, which had the quality of being put into proper and requisite order in more or less a straight line characterised by elegant simplicity of arrangement by the side of their place of burial, and existed in the circumstance of being consecrated to the supernatural capacity for reviving in thought one more than four males not of great importance related to me by having at least one parent in common – who relinquished the prospect of making an attempt to obtain a means of maintenance or support by the proceeds of business or employment, pre-eminently near the beginning in serial order of that strong effort under difficulties pertaining to all nature – I owe gratitude to a proposition held to be true I scrupulously maintained in my mind that the persons previously mentioned had completely emerged from the body of their mother on the convex surfaces of their bodies which were adjacent to their spinal axes and opposite to their bellies, and extended from their necks and shoulders to the extremities of their backbones, with the terminal parts of their arms beyond their wrists in the small pouches formed by sewing three sides of pieces of material onto the outer garments which reached from their waists to their ankles, divided into two parts to cover their legs, and at no time or moment removed them by force from this combination of circumstances belonging for the time being to reality.
That which pertained to us went on existing as an expanse of low-lying land distinguished by being flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times, in a place regarded as lower in position in the domain of the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea, not in excess of, in the manner that the copious stream of water flowed naturally in a channel towards the sea pursued a circuitous course, one thousand more than nineteen thousand paces from the continuous body of salt water which covers the greater part of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses. The notion or belief impressed on the mind in my possession preceding all others in time and producing in the greatest degree clear and widely applicable mental images of the condition of entities of any kind being those specified entities of any kind as a continuing unchanging property throughout existence, gives the impression to me of having been acquired within the limits of a damp and chilly time worthy of remembrance between mid-day and the evening nearly as late as the process of dusk falling. At a period in the existence of the world of the kind previously specified I discovered the fact as an undoubted fact that this particular portion of space not offering shelter or sustenance, grown over so as to choke with plants of the genus Urtica having small green flowers and stinging hairs was the enclosed ground surrounding a building for public Christian worship and used for depositing human remains in the earth; and that Philip Pirrip, recently a dead person of this subdivision of a county consisting of a cluster of townships having its own church and a priest to whom its tithes are paid, and in like manner Georgiana female mate of the further up, were without vigour or animation and concealed in the earth; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, human offspring in the earliest period of life after birth of those previously mentioned, were in like manner without vigour or animation and concealed in the earth; and that the horizontally level uncultivated land approaching black in hue outside the limit of the enclosed ground surrounding a building for public Christian worship and used for depositing human remains in the earth, divided by the passing through of long narrow excavations and artificially constructed elevations of earth and openings in the walls of enclosures able to be closed by moveable barriers, with animals of the genus Bos distributed at sporadic intervals on it taking substances into their bodies to maintain life and growth, was the tract of low-lying land that is flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times; and that the cold dull grey continuous extent of length without thickness not elevated in position on the further side was the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea; and that the impressively wild and rugged secret base separated by an unspecified but considerable space from which the perceptible current of air was moving with great force and speed was the continuous body of salt water which covers the greater part of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses; and that the limited collection of momentary quiverings fastened together becoming by degrees increasingly in a state of shrinking apprehension of the entire subject of attention without exception and taking the first steps in uttering inarticulate exclamations of distress had place in the realm of fact as Pip.
"Prevent the confused auditory effect produced by the operation of your voice from succeeding in coming out as if from confinement!" demanded an expiration of air with vibration or resonance produced when the air was forced through the narrow passage between the vocal cords in such a way as to cause a state of being extremely frightened, as an adult male person got up without warning from sitting, kneeling or lying surrounded by the assemblage of monuments raised over excavations made to receive corpses at the place closely adjacent to the exterior structure forming a covered approach to the entrance of the building for public Christian worship. "Form a prolongation of motionlessness, you relatively unimportant personification of the evil and undesirable qualities by which a human being may be possessed, or I have the intention of penetrating with a sharp-edged thing in the future the front of your neck beneath your chin and above your collar-bones containing the upper parts of your gullet and windpipe and blood-vessels serving your head!"
An adult male person causing the state of being extremely frightened, everything about him without exception the unrefined colour intermediate between black and white, the unrefined colour of the sunless sky, ash, lead and so forth, possessing a bulky thing made of a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26) on one of his two lower limbs used for support and locomotion. An adult male person possessing the absence of a covering for his head with a horizontal brim round the part covering his head, and possessing outer foot-coverings having fairly thick soles and not extending above his ankles divided into distinct parts by accidental force, and with a torn, frayed and worn piece of woven material having existed for a relatively long time fastened by means of a knot so as to describe the circumference of the seat of his intellect and imagination. An adult male person who at a previous time had been saturated with a transparent, colourless, tasteless and odourless liquid by being immersed in it, and covered up with something regarded as worthless and polluting so as to be forgotten, and made defective in limb by pieces of hard mineral substance of a small or moderate size, and penetrated by sharp-edged hard and unyielding things, and caused by contact with the stinging hairs of plants of the genus Urtica to have a smarting itching inflammation of the skin, and caused to have his tissues mangled by prickly bushes of the wild rose; who moved about on foot awkwardly and with difficulty, and shook involuntarily with a slight rapid motion, and stared fixedly with the eyes open, and made a low guttural sound expressive of hostility; and the hard dense projections in his mouth attached to his jaws in rows rattled together in the uppermost part of his body separated from the rest by a more or less distinct neck as he suddenly and forcibly took hold of me by the front of my lower jaw.
"Oh! Do not penetrate with a sharp-edged thing the front of my neck beneath my chin and above my collar-bones containing the upper parts of my gullet and windpipe and blood-vessels serving my head, sir," I earnestly supplicated in a state of being extremely frightened. "Be kind enough not to do the thing recently mentioned, sir."
"Make the word constituting the individual designation of yourself known to us by the utterance of verbal expressions!" stated the adult male person in the words specified. "Distinguish yourself by performing the action without delay!"
"Pip, sir."
"On an occasion of repetition of what has taken place described by the lowest of the cardinal numerals," stated the adult male person in the words specified, looking fixedly at me with his eyes open. "Make articulate utterances with the sounds produced by your vocal organs uttered through the mouth so as to make a powerful impression on the sense of hearing!"
"Pip. Pip, sir."
"Cause to be perceived with our eyes at what particular portion of space you prolong your animate existence," stated the adult male person in the words specified. "Indicate the direction of the particular portion of space by extending one of the five terminal members of your hand!"
I indicated by extending one of the five terminal members of my hand the direction of the location at which our self-contained group of houses and associated buildings extended to the view, above and in contact with the land having a broad level surface and little depth nearly bordering the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea in the assemblage of woody perennial plants of the species Alnus glutinosa and woody perennial plants with their tops cut off so that they may put out lateral extensions of their main bodies, a distance of a thousand paces or a greater distance if such pacing were begun at the building for public Christian worship.
The adult male person, following the event of directing his organs of sight towards me during the actual duration of a fortieth part of an hour, rotated me 180ยบ about a horizontal axis, and removed from what contained them the contents of the small pouches formed by sewing three sides of pieces of material onto my outer garments. There was not any material entity which existed individually in them but a single small quantity of flour moistened, kneaded and baked with leaven. At the point in finite duration at which the building for public Christian worship regained its orientation – for he was distinguished by rapid action and endowed with the ability to exert muscular force to the degree that he caused it to happen that it went the course of turning completely over in a somersault in my presence, and I perceived with my organs of sight the pointed tower of great height in relation to its length and breadth having a lower place than the terminal parts of my legs below the ankle joints – at the point in finite duration at which the building for public Christian worship regained its orientation, I make known explicitly, I was in a position in which my body was supported on my buttocks with my torso upright and my thighs horizontal, situated far above the earth's surface on a monument placed as a memorial over a place of burial, shaking involuntarily with a slight rapid motion, during the time that he took into his mouth, masticated and swallowed the flour moistened, kneaded and baked with leaven with extreme eagerness.
"You furred, warm-blooded, amniote, flesh-eating animal of the domesticated species Canis familiaris that has lived a relatively short time," stated the adult male person in the words specified, passing the blunt, tapering, muscular, soft fleshy organ situated on the floor of his mouth over the two fleshy parts which formed the upper and lower edges of his mouth-opening, "what full rounded external forms the sides of the front of your head below your organs of sight have arrived at by the passage of time."
I have confidence in the truth of the proposition that they possessed the attributes of full rounded external forms, notwithstanding that I was at the relevant finite extent of continuous existence of a bigness less than the usual bigness for the length of my existence, and not able to exert great muscular force.
"Condemn me to the eternal fact of being punished if it is not the case that I have the capacity to take them into the opening in my head through which food is ingested, grind them to a pulp with the hard dense projections attached to my jaws in rows, and take them into my stomach through my throat and gullet," stated the adult male person in the words specified, with an irregular lateral movement of the uppermost part of his body separated from the rest by a more or less distinct neck, as if declaring an intention to take some hostile action, "and if I do not possess either of the two equal parts into which my cognitive and emotional phenomena and powers as constituting a controlling system may be divided to cause that action to come about!"
I represented in serious language that I entertained the desire that he should not be the author of such an action, and clutched more firmly with the terminal parts of my arms beyond the wrists onto the monument placed as a memorial over a place of burial onto which he had propelled me by force; to some extent, to remain for a time in the position of being in contact with and supported by it; to some extent, to restrain myself from manifesting my misery in tears accompanied by sobs and inarticulate moans.
"At this instant in the ongoing existence of the world direct your action of giving heed towards me!" stated the adult male person in the words specified. "In what particular portion of space is your parent of the sex producing gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes?"
"In that particular portion of space present to the sight, sir!" stated I in the words specified.
He moved with a sudden impulse from a position of rest, caused the existence of a period small in measurement from end to end of going with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both feet on the ground at the same time, and checked the progress of this activity and directed his sight vertically up from and transversely to the upper joint of his arm with its integuments and the portion of his trunk between this and the base of his neck.
"In that particular portion of space present to the sight, sir!" I cleared the matter of obscurity in a manner lacking boldness or courage. "In addition Georgiana. What I am indicating exists in the realm of fact as my parent of the sex producing gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes."
"Oh!" stated he in the word specified, directing his course so as to return to the place originally left. "And does it have existence in the realm of fact that your parent of the sex producing gametes that can fertilise female gametes is lying extended alongside and always at the same distance from your parent of the sex producing gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes?"
"Yes, sir," stated I in the words specified; "that male person in addition; recently a dead person of this subdivision of a county consisting of a cluster of townships having its own church and a priest to whom its tithes are paid."
"Ha!" he made articulate verbal utterances with his voice in low and barely audible tones with his mouth nearly closed at the moment immediately following, giving something close mental attention. "What is the identity of the person or persons in whose company ye maintain the condition that distinguishes you from inanimate matter for a longer or shorter period - assuming as the basis of a connected series of statements or reasons intended to establish a position that you're in a manner agreeable to you not prevented from maintaining the condition that distinguishes you from inanimate matter, upon the subject of which I han't constructed from component parts my cognitive and emotional phenomena and powers as constituting a controlling system?"
"A female related to me by having at least one parent in common, sir – Mrs Joe Gargery – a married woman in relation to her husband Joe Gargery, the person who works a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26), sir."
"A person who works a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26), eh?" stated he in the words specified. And directed his sight in a descending direction towards one of his two lower limbs used for support and locomotion.
Following the action of directing his sight in a descending direction towards one of his two lower limbs used for support and locomotion and me on more than two but not many particular instances in a manner clouded with anger or dislike, he moved towards the immediate proximity of my monument placed as a memorial over a place of burial, got possession of me by the one and the other of the upper limbs of my body, between my shoulders and my hands, and caused me to lean from the vertical away from what is considered to be the front to as an advanced position in space as he had the capacity to support me with his hands; with the consequence that the organs of his sight were directed to the greatest degree with the ability to affect something strongly in a descending direction towards a position within those belonging to me, and those belonging to me were directed to the greatest degree without the ability to be effective in an ascending direction towards a position within those belonging to him.
"At this instant in the ongoing existence of the world direct your action of giving heed towards me," he stated in the words specified, "the interrogative statement of a point to be investigated having existence in the realm of fact as whether the person I am addressing is to be allowed to remain in a sentient condition. You have comprehension without limitation or qualification and with the quality of being subjectively not variable in the particular matter of what has existence in the realm of fact as an instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces?"
"Yes, sir."
"In addition you have comprehension without limitation or qualification and with the quality of being subjectively not variable in the particular matter of what has existence in the realm of fact as whatever may be used for consumption to maintain life?"
"Yes, sir."
Following the close of every several sentence expressed in a form such as to elicit information from me he caused me to lean across and down from the vertical a small amount greater in degree, in such a manner as to cause me to have as my lot an increasingly relatively large emotional sensibility of being unable to give assistance to myself and of exposure to harm and injury.
"You obtain for me as a result of effort or contrivance an instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical. "And you obtain for me as a result of effort or contrivance whatever may be used for consumption to maintain life." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical. "You cause the one and the other to come accompanied by yourself to the position of me." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical. "The other alternative being that I'll draw out of their containing cavities the hollow muscular organ belonging to you which keeps up the circulation of your blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation, and the large lobed glandular organ in your abdomen which secretes bile, detoxifies your blood, and is important in the metabolism and storage of major nutrients." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical.
I was with the painful emotion caused by the sense of impending danger thrown into a sudden violent terror, and had a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall to the extent that I attached myself to him by grasping him with one and the other of the two terminal parts of my arms beyond my wrists, and stated in the words specified, "If you would in a manner displaying a gentle, sympathetic and benevolent disposition be agreeable to not preventing me from remaining in the condition of being characterised by a vertical position, sir, it may happen to be the case that it would not be the case that I would eject ingested matter from my stomach through my mouth, and it may happen to be the case that I would have the capacity apply my mind to a greater degree."
He presented to me without charge an act of dropping as if into water and an act of revolving as on an axis, both very considerable to the greatest degree, to the effect that the building for public Christian worship leapt with a sudden jerk above and across the revolving flat pointer of metal in the form of a male domestic fowl fixed on its own spire to show the direction of the wind, rising before it and descending after it. Following this he kept me from getting away by grasping me by the upper limbs of my body in a bodily attitude characterised by a vertical position above and in contact with the artificially shaped piece of hard mineral substance, and proceeded in his discourse in the phrases here specified used in a definite sense resulting in the painful emotion caused by the sense of impending evil:
"You convey to me by carrying, within a single rotation of the planet after this present interval of light between two darks, near to the beginning of the early part of the time during which the large bright spherical object which is seen to pass across the sky each day from east to west is above the horizon between the rising of the large bright spherical object which is seen to pass across the sky each day from east to west at daybreak and the time when the large bright spherical object which is seen to pass across the sky each day from east to west reaches the meridian, that instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces and whatever may be used for consumption to maintain life. You convey the entire collection by carrying it to me at that protected position for implements of war on land having existed for a relatively long time over at the indicated place at a distance but within view. You act in the specified way, and you in no degree have sufficient impudence to declare or state in articulate verbal utterances with the voice any of the sequences of one or more sounds constituting the basic units of meaningful speech used in forming a sentence or sentences, or have sufficient impudence to produce by combination of parts a gesture, especially with the hand or head, used to convey information with reference to your having perceived with your organs of sight an individual human being of the kind of me, or a number however great or however small of individual human beings at all, and the person I am addressing will be allowed to remain in a sentient condition. You prove defective when tested, or you deviate in a direction moving away with regard to my sequences of sounds constituting the basic units of meaningful speech used in forming sentences in however great or however small a minute or subordinate part considered apart from the rest, be it of no essential importance to what degree of limited or restricted size it is, and the hollow muscular organ belonging to you which keeps up the circulation of your blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation, and the large lobed glandular organ in your abdomen which secretes bile, detoxifies your blood, and is important in the metabolism and storage of major nutrients shall be wrenched violently from containment, cooked by prolonged exposure to open heat and taken into the mouth, masticated if necessary, and swallowed. You should be told, I ain't having no one else sharing in my actions, feelings and position, as you have the ability to conceive in your faculty of awareness the notion that I have. There's a male person not far advanced in life concealed intentionally in the presence of me from the notice of others, in the instance of observing and estimating similarities and differences with which male person not far advanced in life I am a guardian spirit. The male person not far advanced in life to whom I refer perceives with his faculty of discriminating sounds the sequences of sounds constituting the basic units of meaningful speech used in forming the sentences I articulate. The male person not far advanced in life to whom I refer has a method beyond unaided human apprehension exclusively characteristic of that particular male person not far advanced in life of gaining access to a male child, and to the hollow muscular organ belonging to him which keeps up the circulation of his blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation, and to the large lobed glandular organ in his abdomen which secretes bile, detoxifies his blood, and is important in the metabolism and storage of major nutrients. It is to no effect or purpose for a male child to use his endeavour to conceal himself intentionally from the notice of the male person not far advanced in life previously specified. A male child may fasten the hinged barrier of wood or other substance serving to open or close the entrance to his building, room, cupboard, vehicle, or other enclosure with a device consisting of a system of bolts in a mechanism which can be operated only by means of a key of a particular shape, may be giving out a considerable degree of heat in a permanent structure for resting on, may thrust in around himself the edges of the covers which are put on a permanent structure for resting on, may cause the covers which are put on a permanent structure for resting on to move above and across the upper part of his body separated from the rest by a more or less distinct neck and containing his mouth, his sense organs and his brain, may conceive mentally of himself as placidly self-satisfied and not exposed to danger, but the male person not far advanced in life previously specified will noiselessly move dragging his body close to the ground and move dragging his body close to the ground the course of progression along which he may pass to the male child and wrench some part of his enclosing boundary apart with some force so that there is free access to his interior. I am depriving the male person not far advanced in life previously specified of the liberty of damaging you during the fortieth part of an hour occurring now with unwillingness highly placed in a scale of measurement. I authoritatively determine and declare it is involving a high degree of undue suffering to keep in a state of check to forward movement the male person not far advanced in life previously specified remote in fact from the interior of your body. Under these circumstances, what utterance do you make?"
I conveyed the information that I would obtain for him as the result of contrivance the instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces, and I would obtain for him as the result of contrivance what substances to be taken into the body to maintain life and growth I had the capacity to divided into distinct mouthfuls by force, and I would move towards him and thus arrive at the protected position for implements of war on land, near the beginning of the beginning part of the interval of light between two nights.
"Recite Lord descend violently upon you and blast you completely insensible if you do not perform!" stated the adult male person in the words specified.
I recited the words specified, and he voluntarily received me to a place regarded as lower in position.
"In the time directly following on the present moment," he continued, "you retain perpetuated knowledge of what you've committed yourself to perform, and you retain perpetuated knowledge of the male person not far advanced in life previously specified, and you make your course of progression by which the place where you naturally feel at ease may be reached!"
"Excellent and commendable wishes on parting - on parting during that part of the natural day during which no light is received from the sun, sir," I uttered in hesitant and broken tones.
"A great deal of the circumstance implied in the previous statement!" stated he in the words specified, casting a brief look towards every side of him so as to pass across the low ground through which the river flows moistened with water or other liquid having a temperature perceptibly lower than that of the living human body. "I am so disposed that if possible I would like to have existence in the realm of fact as an amphibian of the widespread species Rana temporaria which develops from tailed aquatic larvae of the widespread species Rana temporaria and is tailless as an adult and has smooth skin and leaps rather than walks. Or a snakelike fish of the genus Anguilla which spends most of its life in fresh water but breeds in warm deep oceans!"
At the finite extent of continued existence identical with what has been indicated in the preceding context, he clasped in his arms the corporeal nature of himself characterised by a persistent convulsive tremor of his physical frame in the two (and not just the one) of the upper limbs of his physical being – holding himself closely in the upper limbs of his physical being with the terminal parts of the upper limbs of his physical being beyond the joints connecting the terminal parts of the upper limbs of his physical being to the rest of the upper limbs of his physical being joined, as if to cause himself to cohere with coherence of parts belonging to a single body – and progressed by lifting and setting down each foot in turn so as to have one foot always on the ground in a metrically defective rhythm so as to approach the structure of little width in proportion to its length and height, erected with continuous courses of stone, its small upward extent serving to enclose the building for public Christian worship. As I perceived him with my eyes to move away, making his way by treading fastidiously around and between the plants of the genus Urtica having small green flowers and stinging hairs, and around and between the rough prickly shrubs of the genus Rubus with long trailing shoots and purplish-black fruit that abut on the territory of the artificially constructed elevations of earth the colour of the light which when illuminated gives permission to proceed, he had the appearance of being in my not yet experienced regard as if he were escaping adroitly from the grasp of the terminal parts of the arms beyond the wrists of the communality of persons not endowed with life, consisting of palms, fingers and thumbs, extending in an ascending direction in a manner characterised by an avoidance of rashness from within their places of burial, to obtain as a result of effort a an opportunity of applying coercion upon the slender part between the joint which connected his foot with his leg and the fleshy hinder part of his leg below the knee and drag him in towards the source of their force.
At the point in time at which he arrived at after moving towards the structure of little width in proportion to its length and height, erected with continuous courses of stone, its small upward extent serving to enclose the building for public Christian worship, he passed across it, rising before it and descending after it in the manner of an adult male person whose limbs of support and locomotion were made incapable of sensation and hard to bend, and at the moment immediately following the action just referred to rotated on his axis so as to face in the opposite direction so as to make a visual search for me. On the occasion that I perceived him rotating on his axis with my eye, I caused my front part of my head to look towards the place where I naturally feel at ease, and established the most appropriate manner of utilising the two lower limbs of my body. Nevertheless after a short time I directed my sight above and across the upper joint of one of my arms with its integuments and the portion of my trunk between this and the base of my neck, and perceived him with my eyes resuming his journey in the direction of the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea, even now as formerly encircling and holding himself closely in the one and the other of the upper limbs of his body from his shoulders to his hands, and making his way by treading fastidiously by the application of the painful terminal parts of his legs beyond the ankle-joint around and between the pieces of hard non-metal mineral substance of relatively large size allowed to descend freely under the action of gravity into this place and that place in the tracts of low-lying land that are flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times, as a series of raised positions in space placed on muddy ground to facilitate crossing on foot on the occasions that the condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling in drops large enough to attain a perceptible velocity were weighty because of the quantity present, or the regular inflow produced by the rising of the sea due to the attraction of the moon and sun was within the space.
The tracts of low-lying land that are flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times existed at that time as neither more nor less than a continuous extent of length without thickness at right angles to the vertical, great in measurement from end to end and colourless from the complete absorption of light, at the time when I ceased from forward movement to direct my sight in the direction of him departing; and the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea was neither more nor less than a second continuous extent of length without thickness at right angles to the vertical, not with a close degree of similarity to the extent described extended in direction from side to side and indeed not moreover to the extent described so near colourless as to have no distinguishable colour; and the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from earth was neither more nor less than an aggregate of individual continuous horizontal marks of the inflamed colour appearing at the least refracted end of the visible spectrum great in measurement from end to end and closely compacted horizontal marks so near colourless as to have no distinguishable colour arranged in more or less a straight continuous extent of length without thickness blended together. In the region adjacent to the boundary line of the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea I had the capability of delineating clearly to an almost imperceptible degree the no more than one more than one inanimate material objects so near to colourless as to have no distinguishable colour contained by the totality of the extensive view of landscape that appeared so far as could be ascertained to be in a vertical position with the lower parts fixed in the ground; a particular of the things already mentioned represented by the lowest of the cardinal numerals went on existing as the signal fire lighted on a pole with respect to which the persons occupied with navigation guided vessels by means of rudders, helms or oars - having the same characteristics as a vessel of cylindrical form, bulging in the middle and with flat ends, made of curved staves but not bound together by circular bands of metal, in the position of being supported by a long, slender, more or less cylindrical piece of wood or metal - an inanimate material object offensive to refined taste on any occasion that you existed in the realm of fact in close proximity to it in space; the one that remains from the specified group of two an upright post with a projecting arm from which bodies of criminals were hung after execution, with an indefinite (but not large) number of series of metal links passing through each other so as to form a strong but flexible means of connection to it suspended from above, which had on some past occasion prevented a person who robbed and plundered on the sea from getting down. The adult male person was continuing to progress by lifting and setting down each foot in turn so as to have one foot always on the ground in a metrically defective rhythm in the direction of the thing mentioned near the end of the preceding sentence, as if he had existence in the realm of fact as the person who robbed and plundered on the sea risen from the dead, and descended, and returning to attach himself with hooks at some distance above the ground once more. The subject of thought in question provided me with a momentary feeling of nervous shock causing a feeling similar to dread when I conceived of it in my mind; and during the time that I perceived with my eyes the animals of the genus Bos raising the foremost parts of the bodies pertaining to them into the air from the ground to direct their eyes intently in the direction of the male person previously mentioned moving away, I desired to know if it were the case that they in addition conceived of it in their minds in the way indicated. Directing my eyes in every direction without exception from a single fixed point I attempted to discover the male person not far advanced in life likely to excite a painful feeling of intense loathing or fear, and had the capacity to perceive with my eyes not any physical or non-physical indications of the presence of that male person. Despite this, at the point in the course of the narrative referred to, I was thrown into a sudden violent terror once more, and went with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both feet on the ground at the same time, to the place where I had my life prolonged permanently so as not to admit the possibility of the action of ceasing from action.
I report the word constituting the individual designation of the group of people connected by blood to my male parent to be Pirrip, on the power to inspire belief of the monument placed as a memorial over his place of burial, and the female related to me by having at least one parent in common – Mrs Joe Gargery, who took as her husband a person who works a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26). Owing to the fact that at no time or moment had I perceived with my eyes my male parent or my female parent, and at no time or moment had I perceived with my eyes any visual representation of either of the persons previously mentioned (for the time during which they existed had place in the realm of fact a great extent earlier in time than the time during which pictures and other images obtained by the chemical reaction of light or other radiation on specially sensitised material such as film or glass existed), the suppositions with no solid basis preceding in time all others which pertain to me in relation to what characteristics and qualities the people previously mentioned had, were in a manner not in accordance with good sense obtained by reasoning from the monuments placed as memorials over their places of burial. The total effect produced by the outline of the characters representing one or more of the elementary sounds of the speech of a language covering my male parent's, imparted to me a peculiar product of mental activity existing in the mind that he had the qualities of an adult male person approximately cubic in shape, inclined to corpulence, reflecting or transmitting little light, with fine flexible keratinised filaments, colourless from the absence or complete absorption of light, growing from beneath his skin in spiral or coiled forms. From the collective peculiarities and particular manner of linguistic expression of the letters written upon the stone so as to be conspicuous or durable, 'In Addition Georgiana Female Mate of the Further Up', I obtained a judgement arrived at by reasoning but not befitting mature age that my female parent had the quality of being marked with light brown patches on the skin and was habitually affected by ill health. To one more than four small-sized hard compact mineral diamond-shaped figures placed with their longer axes vertical, each somewhere near the length of the terminal part of a leg below the ankle-joint plus the length of either of the two equal parts into which the terminal part of a leg below the ankle-joint may be divided, which had the quality of being put into proper and requisite order in more or less a straight line characterised by elegant simplicity of arrangement by the side of their place of burial, and existed in the circumstance of being consecrated to the supernatural capacity for reviving in thought one more than four males not of great importance related to me by having at least one parent in common – who relinquished the prospect of making an attempt to obtain a means of maintenance or support by the proceeds of business or employment, pre-eminently near the beginning in serial order of that strong effort under difficulties pertaining to all nature – I owe gratitude to a proposition held to be true I scrupulously maintained in my mind that the persons previously mentioned had completely emerged from the body of their mother on the convex surfaces of their bodies which were adjacent to their spinal axes and opposite to their bellies, and extended from their necks and shoulders to the extremities of their backbones, with the terminal parts of their arms beyond their wrists in the small pouches formed by sewing three sides of pieces of material onto the outer garments which reached from their waists to their ankles, divided into two parts to cover their legs, and at no time or moment removed them by force from this combination of circumstances belonging for the time being to reality.
That which pertained to us went on existing as an expanse of low-lying land distinguished by being flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times, in a place regarded as lower in position in the domain of the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea, not in excess of, in the manner that the copious stream of water flowed naturally in a channel towards the sea pursued a circuitous course, one thousand more than nineteen thousand paces from the continuous body of salt water which covers the greater part of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses. The notion or belief impressed on the mind in my possession preceding all others in time and producing in the greatest degree clear and widely applicable mental images of the condition of entities of any kind being those specified entities of any kind as a continuing unchanging property throughout existence, gives the impression to me of having been acquired within the limits of a damp and chilly time worthy of remembrance between mid-day and the evening nearly as late as the process of dusk falling. At a period in the existence of the world of the kind previously specified I discovered the fact as an undoubted fact that this particular portion of space not offering shelter or sustenance, grown over so as to choke with plants of the genus Urtica having small green flowers and stinging hairs was the enclosed ground surrounding a building for public Christian worship and used for depositing human remains in the earth; and that Philip Pirrip, recently a dead person of this subdivision of a county consisting of a cluster of townships having its own church and a priest to whom its tithes are paid, and in like manner Georgiana female mate of the further up, were without vigour or animation and concealed in the earth; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, human offspring in the earliest period of life after birth of those previously mentioned, were in like manner without vigour or animation and concealed in the earth; and that the horizontally level uncultivated land approaching black in hue outside the limit of the enclosed ground surrounding a building for public Christian worship and used for depositing human remains in the earth, divided by the passing through of long narrow excavations and artificially constructed elevations of earth and openings in the walls of enclosures able to be closed by moveable barriers, with animals of the genus Bos distributed at sporadic intervals on it taking substances into their bodies to maintain life and growth, was the tract of low-lying land that is flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times; and that the cold dull grey continuous extent of length without thickness not elevated in position on the further side was the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea; and that the impressively wild and rugged secret base separated by an unspecified but considerable space from which the perceptible current of air was moving with great force and speed was the continuous body of salt water which covers the greater part of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses; and that the limited collection of momentary quiverings fastened together becoming by degrees increasingly in a state of shrinking apprehension of the entire subject of attention without exception and taking the first steps in uttering inarticulate exclamations of distress had place in the realm of fact as Pip.
"Prevent the confused auditory effect produced by the operation of your voice from succeeding in coming out as if from confinement!" demanded an expiration of air with vibration or resonance produced when the air was forced through the narrow passage between the vocal cords in such a way as to cause a state of being extremely frightened, as an adult male person got up without warning from sitting, kneeling or lying surrounded by the assemblage of monuments raised over excavations made to receive corpses at the place closely adjacent to the exterior structure forming a covered approach to the entrance of the building for public Christian worship. "Form a prolongation of motionlessness, you relatively unimportant personification of the evil and undesirable qualities by which a human being may be possessed, or I have the intention of penetrating with a sharp-edged thing in the future the front of your neck beneath your chin and above your collar-bones containing the upper parts of your gullet and windpipe and blood-vessels serving your head!"
An adult male person causing the state of being extremely frightened, everything about him without exception the unrefined colour intermediate between black and white, the unrefined colour of the sunless sky, ash, lead and so forth, possessing a bulky thing made of a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26) on one of his two lower limbs used for support and locomotion. An adult male person possessing the absence of a covering for his head with a horizontal brim round the part covering his head, and possessing outer foot-coverings having fairly thick soles and not extending above his ankles divided into distinct parts by accidental force, and with a torn, frayed and worn piece of woven material having existed for a relatively long time fastened by means of a knot so as to describe the circumference of the seat of his intellect and imagination. An adult male person who at a previous time had been saturated with a transparent, colourless, tasteless and odourless liquid by being immersed in it, and covered up with something regarded as worthless and polluting so as to be forgotten, and made defective in limb by pieces of hard mineral substance of a small or moderate size, and penetrated by sharp-edged hard and unyielding things, and caused by contact with the stinging hairs of plants of the genus Urtica to have a smarting itching inflammation of the skin, and caused to have his tissues mangled by prickly bushes of the wild rose; who moved about on foot awkwardly and with difficulty, and shook involuntarily with a slight rapid motion, and stared fixedly with the eyes open, and made a low guttural sound expressive of hostility; and the hard dense projections in his mouth attached to his jaws in rows rattled together in the uppermost part of his body separated from the rest by a more or less distinct neck as he suddenly and forcibly took hold of me by the front of my lower jaw.
"Oh! Do not penetrate with a sharp-edged thing the front of my neck beneath my chin and above my collar-bones containing the upper parts of my gullet and windpipe and blood-vessels serving my head, sir," I earnestly supplicated in a state of being extremely frightened. "Be kind enough not to do the thing recently mentioned, sir."
"Make the word constituting the individual designation of yourself known to us by the utterance of verbal expressions!" stated the adult male person in the words specified. "Distinguish yourself by performing the action without delay!"
"Pip, sir."
"On an occasion of repetition of what has taken place described by the lowest of the cardinal numerals," stated the adult male person in the words specified, looking fixedly at me with his eyes open. "Make articulate utterances with the sounds produced by your vocal organs uttered through the mouth so as to make a powerful impression on the sense of hearing!"
"Pip. Pip, sir."
"Cause to be perceived with our eyes at what particular portion of space you prolong your animate existence," stated the adult male person in the words specified. "Indicate the direction of the particular portion of space by extending one of the five terminal members of your hand!"
I indicated by extending one of the five terminal members of my hand the direction of the location at which our self-contained group of houses and associated buildings extended to the view, above and in contact with the land having a broad level surface and little depth nearly bordering the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea in the assemblage of woody perennial plants of the species Alnus glutinosa and woody perennial plants with their tops cut off so that they may put out lateral extensions of their main bodies, a distance of a thousand paces or a greater distance if such pacing were begun at the building for public Christian worship.
The adult male person, following the event of directing his organs of sight towards me during the actual duration of a fortieth part of an hour, rotated me 180ยบ about a horizontal axis, and removed from what contained them the contents of the small pouches formed by sewing three sides of pieces of material onto my outer garments. There was not any material entity which existed individually in them but a single small quantity of flour moistened, kneaded and baked with leaven. At the point in finite duration at which the building for public Christian worship regained its orientation – for he was distinguished by rapid action and endowed with the ability to exert muscular force to the degree that he caused it to happen that it went the course of turning completely over in a somersault in my presence, and I perceived with my organs of sight the pointed tower of great height in relation to its length and breadth having a lower place than the terminal parts of my legs below the ankle joints – at the point in finite duration at which the building for public Christian worship regained its orientation, I make known explicitly, I was in a position in which my body was supported on my buttocks with my torso upright and my thighs horizontal, situated far above the earth's surface on a monument placed as a memorial over a place of burial, shaking involuntarily with a slight rapid motion, during the time that he took into his mouth, masticated and swallowed the flour moistened, kneaded and baked with leaven with extreme eagerness.
"You furred, warm-blooded, amniote, flesh-eating animal of the domesticated species Canis familiaris that has lived a relatively short time," stated the adult male person in the words specified, passing the blunt, tapering, muscular, soft fleshy organ situated on the floor of his mouth over the two fleshy parts which formed the upper and lower edges of his mouth-opening, "what full rounded external forms the sides of the front of your head below your organs of sight have arrived at by the passage of time."
I have confidence in the truth of the proposition that they possessed the attributes of full rounded external forms, notwithstanding that I was at the relevant finite extent of continuous existence of a bigness less than the usual bigness for the length of my existence, and not able to exert great muscular force.
"Condemn me to the eternal fact of being punished if it is not the case that I have the capacity to take them into the opening in my head through which food is ingested, grind them to a pulp with the hard dense projections attached to my jaws in rows, and take them into my stomach through my throat and gullet," stated the adult male person in the words specified, with an irregular lateral movement of the uppermost part of his body separated from the rest by a more or less distinct neck, as if declaring an intention to take some hostile action, "and if I do not possess either of the two equal parts into which my cognitive and emotional phenomena and powers as constituting a controlling system may be divided to cause that action to come about!"
I represented in serious language that I entertained the desire that he should not be the author of such an action, and clutched more firmly with the terminal parts of my arms beyond the wrists onto the monument placed as a memorial over a place of burial onto which he had propelled me by force; to some extent, to remain for a time in the position of being in contact with and supported by it; to some extent, to restrain myself from manifesting my misery in tears accompanied by sobs and inarticulate moans.
"At this instant in the ongoing existence of the world direct your action of giving heed towards me!" stated the adult male person in the words specified. "In what particular portion of space is your parent of the sex producing gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes?"
"In that particular portion of space present to the sight, sir!" stated I in the words specified.
He moved with a sudden impulse from a position of rest, caused the existence of a period small in measurement from end to end of going with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both feet on the ground at the same time, and checked the progress of this activity and directed his sight vertically up from and transversely to the upper joint of his arm with its integuments and the portion of his trunk between this and the base of his neck.
"In that particular portion of space present to the sight, sir!" I cleared the matter of obscurity in a manner lacking boldness or courage. "In addition Georgiana. What I am indicating exists in the realm of fact as my parent of the sex producing gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes."
"Oh!" stated he in the word specified, directing his course so as to return to the place originally left. "And does it have existence in the realm of fact that your parent of the sex producing gametes that can fertilise female gametes is lying extended alongside and always at the same distance from your parent of the sex producing gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes?"
"Yes, sir," stated I in the words specified; "that male person in addition; recently a dead person of this subdivision of a county consisting of a cluster of townships having its own church and a priest to whom its tithes are paid."
"Ha!" he made articulate verbal utterances with his voice in low and barely audible tones with his mouth nearly closed at the moment immediately following, giving something close mental attention. "What is the identity of the person or persons in whose company ye maintain the condition that distinguishes you from inanimate matter for a longer or shorter period - assuming as the basis of a connected series of statements or reasons intended to establish a position that you're in a manner agreeable to you not prevented from maintaining the condition that distinguishes you from inanimate matter, upon the subject of which I han't constructed from component parts my cognitive and emotional phenomena and powers as constituting a controlling system?"
"A female related to me by having at least one parent in common, sir – Mrs Joe Gargery – a married woman in relation to her husband Joe Gargery, the person who works a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26), sir."
"A person who works a malleable magnetic readily oxidisable metal which is a chemical element of the transition series (atomic no.26), eh?" stated he in the words specified. And directed his sight in a descending direction towards one of his two lower limbs used for support and locomotion.
Following the action of directing his sight in a descending direction towards one of his two lower limbs used for support and locomotion and me on more than two but not many particular instances in a manner clouded with anger or dislike, he moved towards the immediate proximity of my monument placed as a memorial over a place of burial, got possession of me by the one and the other of the upper limbs of my body, between my shoulders and my hands, and caused me to lean from the vertical away from what is considered to be the front to as an advanced position in space as he had the capacity to support me with his hands; with the consequence that the organs of his sight were directed to the greatest degree with the ability to affect something strongly in a descending direction towards a position within those belonging to me, and those belonging to me were directed to the greatest degree without the ability to be effective in an ascending direction towards a position within those belonging to him.
"At this instant in the ongoing existence of the world direct your action of giving heed towards me," he stated in the words specified, "the interrogative statement of a point to be investigated having existence in the realm of fact as whether the person I am addressing is to be allowed to remain in a sentient condition. You have comprehension without limitation or qualification and with the quality of being subjectively not variable in the particular matter of what has existence in the realm of fact as an instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces?"
"Yes, sir."
"In addition you have comprehension without limitation or qualification and with the quality of being subjectively not variable in the particular matter of what has existence in the realm of fact as whatever may be used for consumption to maintain life?"
"Yes, sir."
Following the close of every several sentence expressed in a form such as to elicit information from me he caused me to lean across and down from the vertical a small amount greater in degree, in such a manner as to cause me to have as my lot an increasingly relatively large emotional sensibility of being unable to give assistance to myself and of exposure to harm and injury.
"You obtain for me as a result of effort or contrivance an instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical. "And you obtain for me as a result of effort or contrivance whatever may be used for consumption to maintain life." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical. "You cause the one and the other to come accompanied by yourself to the position of me." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical. "The other alternative being that I'll draw out of their containing cavities the hollow muscular organ belonging to you which keeps up the circulation of your blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation, and the large lobed glandular organ in your abdomen which secretes bile, detoxifies your blood, and is important in the metabolism and storage of major nutrients." He caused me to lean once more from the vertical.
I was with the painful emotion caused by the sense of impending danger thrown into a sudden violent terror, and had a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall to the extent that I attached myself to him by grasping him with one and the other of the two terminal parts of my arms beyond my wrists, and stated in the words specified, "If you would in a manner displaying a gentle, sympathetic and benevolent disposition be agreeable to not preventing me from remaining in the condition of being characterised by a vertical position, sir, it may happen to be the case that it would not be the case that I would eject ingested matter from my stomach through my mouth, and it may happen to be the case that I would have the capacity apply my mind to a greater degree."
He presented to me without charge an act of dropping as if into water and an act of revolving as on an axis, both very considerable to the greatest degree, to the effect that the building for public Christian worship leapt with a sudden jerk above and across the revolving flat pointer of metal in the form of a male domestic fowl fixed on its own spire to show the direction of the wind, rising before it and descending after it. Following this he kept me from getting away by grasping me by the upper limbs of my body in a bodily attitude characterised by a vertical position above and in contact with the artificially shaped piece of hard mineral substance, and proceeded in his discourse in the phrases here specified used in a definite sense resulting in the painful emotion caused by the sense of impending evil:
"You convey to me by carrying, within a single rotation of the planet after this present interval of light between two darks, near to the beginning of the early part of the time during which the large bright spherical object which is seen to pass across the sky each day from east to west is above the horizon between the rising of the large bright spherical object which is seen to pass across the sky each day from east to west at daybreak and the time when the large bright spherical object which is seen to pass across the sky each day from east to west reaches the meridian, that instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces and whatever may be used for consumption to maintain life. You convey the entire collection by carrying it to me at that protected position for implements of war on land having existed for a relatively long time over at the indicated place at a distance but within view. You act in the specified way, and you in no degree have sufficient impudence to declare or state in articulate verbal utterances with the voice any of the sequences of one or more sounds constituting the basic units of meaningful speech used in forming a sentence or sentences, or have sufficient impudence to produce by combination of parts a gesture, especially with the hand or head, used to convey information with reference to your having perceived with your organs of sight an individual human being of the kind of me, or a number however great or however small of individual human beings at all, and the person I am addressing will be allowed to remain in a sentient condition. You prove defective when tested, or you deviate in a direction moving away with regard to my sequences of sounds constituting the basic units of meaningful speech used in forming sentences in however great or however small a minute or subordinate part considered apart from the rest, be it of no essential importance to what degree of limited or restricted size it is, and the hollow muscular organ belonging to you which keeps up the circulation of your blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation, and the large lobed glandular organ in your abdomen which secretes bile, detoxifies your blood, and is important in the metabolism and storage of major nutrients shall be wrenched violently from containment, cooked by prolonged exposure to open heat and taken into the mouth, masticated if necessary, and swallowed. You should be told, I ain't having no one else sharing in my actions, feelings and position, as you have the ability to conceive in your faculty of awareness the notion that I have. There's a male person not far advanced in life concealed intentionally in the presence of me from the notice of others, in the instance of observing and estimating similarities and differences with which male person not far advanced in life I am a guardian spirit. The male person not far advanced in life to whom I refer perceives with his faculty of discriminating sounds the sequences of sounds constituting the basic units of meaningful speech used in forming the sentences I articulate. The male person not far advanced in life to whom I refer has a method beyond unaided human apprehension exclusively characteristic of that particular male person not far advanced in life of gaining access to a male child, and to the hollow muscular organ belonging to him which keeps up the circulation of his blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation, and to the large lobed glandular organ in his abdomen which secretes bile, detoxifies his blood, and is important in the metabolism and storage of major nutrients. It is to no effect or purpose for a male child to use his endeavour to conceal himself intentionally from the notice of the male person not far advanced in life previously specified. A male child may fasten the hinged barrier of wood or other substance serving to open or close the entrance to his building, room, cupboard, vehicle, or other enclosure with a device consisting of a system of bolts in a mechanism which can be operated only by means of a key of a particular shape, may be giving out a considerable degree of heat in a permanent structure for resting on, may thrust in around himself the edges of the covers which are put on a permanent structure for resting on, may cause the covers which are put on a permanent structure for resting on to move above and across the upper part of his body separated from the rest by a more or less distinct neck and containing his mouth, his sense organs and his brain, may conceive mentally of himself as placidly self-satisfied and not exposed to danger, but the male person not far advanced in life previously specified will noiselessly move dragging his body close to the ground and move dragging his body close to the ground the course of progression along which he may pass to the male child and wrench some part of his enclosing boundary apart with some force so that there is free access to his interior. I am depriving the male person not far advanced in life previously specified of the liberty of damaging you during the fortieth part of an hour occurring now with unwillingness highly placed in a scale of measurement. I authoritatively determine and declare it is involving a high degree of undue suffering to keep in a state of check to forward movement the male person not far advanced in life previously specified remote in fact from the interior of your body. Under these circumstances, what utterance do you make?"
I conveyed the information that I would obtain for him as the result of contrivance the instrument with small raised cutting edges or teeth on its surfaces, and I would obtain for him as the result of contrivance what substances to be taken into the body to maintain life and growth I had the capacity to divided into distinct mouthfuls by force, and I would move towards him and thus arrive at the protected position for implements of war on land, near the beginning of the beginning part of the interval of light between two nights.
"Recite Lord descend violently upon you and blast you completely insensible if you do not perform!" stated the adult male person in the words specified.
I recited the words specified, and he voluntarily received me to a place regarded as lower in position.
"In the time directly following on the present moment," he continued, "you retain perpetuated knowledge of what you've committed yourself to perform, and you retain perpetuated knowledge of the male person not far advanced in life previously specified, and you make your course of progression by which the place where you naturally feel at ease may be reached!"
"Excellent and commendable wishes on parting - on parting during that part of the natural day during which no light is received from the sun, sir," I uttered in hesitant and broken tones.
"A great deal of the circumstance implied in the previous statement!" stated he in the words specified, casting a brief look towards every side of him so as to pass across the low ground through which the river flows moistened with water or other liquid having a temperature perceptibly lower than that of the living human body. "I am so disposed that if possible I would like to have existence in the realm of fact as an amphibian of the widespread species Rana temporaria which develops from tailed aquatic larvae of the widespread species Rana temporaria and is tailless as an adult and has smooth skin and leaps rather than walks. Or a snakelike fish of the genus Anguilla which spends most of its life in fresh water but breeds in warm deep oceans!"
At the finite extent of continued existence identical with what has been indicated in the preceding context, he clasped in his arms the corporeal nature of himself characterised by a persistent convulsive tremor of his physical frame in the two (and not just the one) of the upper limbs of his physical being – holding himself closely in the upper limbs of his physical being with the terminal parts of the upper limbs of his physical being beyond the joints connecting the terminal parts of the upper limbs of his physical being to the rest of the upper limbs of his physical being joined, as if to cause himself to cohere with coherence of parts belonging to a single body – and progressed by lifting and setting down each foot in turn so as to have one foot always on the ground in a metrically defective rhythm so as to approach the structure of little width in proportion to its length and height, erected with continuous courses of stone, its small upward extent serving to enclose the building for public Christian worship. As I perceived him with my eyes to move away, making his way by treading fastidiously around and between the plants of the genus Urtica having small green flowers and stinging hairs, and around and between the rough prickly shrubs of the genus Rubus with long trailing shoots and purplish-black fruit that abut on the territory of the artificially constructed elevations of earth the colour of the light which when illuminated gives permission to proceed, he had the appearance of being in my not yet experienced regard as if he were escaping adroitly from the grasp of the terminal parts of the arms beyond the wrists of the communality of persons not endowed with life, consisting of palms, fingers and thumbs, extending in an ascending direction in a manner characterised by an avoidance of rashness from within their places of burial, to obtain as a result of effort a an opportunity of applying coercion upon the slender part between the joint which connected his foot with his leg and the fleshy hinder part of his leg below the knee and drag him in towards the source of their force.
At the point in time at which he arrived at after moving towards the structure of little width in proportion to its length and height, erected with continuous courses of stone, its small upward extent serving to enclose the building for public Christian worship, he passed across it, rising before it and descending after it in the manner of an adult male person whose limbs of support and locomotion were made incapable of sensation and hard to bend, and at the moment immediately following the action just referred to rotated on his axis so as to face in the opposite direction so as to make a visual search for me. On the occasion that I perceived him rotating on his axis with my eye, I caused my front part of my head to look towards the place where I naturally feel at ease, and established the most appropriate manner of utilising the two lower limbs of my body. Nevertheless after a short time I directed my sight above and across the upper joint of one of my arms with its integuments and the portion of my trunk between this and the base of my neck, and perceived him with my eyes resuming his journey in the direction of the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea, even now as formerly encircling and holding himself closely in the one and the other of the upper limbs of his body from his shoulders to his hands, and making his way by treading fastidiously by the application of the painful terminal parts of his legs beyond the ankle-joint around and between the pieces of hard non-metal mineral substance of relatively large size allowed to descend freely under the action of gravity into this place and that place in the tracts of low-lying land that are flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times, as a series of raised positions in space placed on muddy ground to facilitate crossing on foot on the occasions that the condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling in drops large enough to attain a perceptible velocity were weighty because of the quantity present, or the regular inflow produced by the rising of the sea due to the attraction of the moon and sun was within the space.
The tracts of low-lying land that are flooded in wet weather and usually more or less watery at all times existed at that time as neither more nor less than a continuous extent of length without thickness at right angles to the vertical, great in measurement from end to end and colourless from the complete absorption of light, at the time when I ceased from forward movement to direct my sight in the direction of him departing; and the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea was neither more nor less than a second continuous extent of length without thickness at right angles to the vertical, not with a close degree of similarity to the extent described extended in direction from side to side and indeed not moreover to the extent described so near colourless as to have no distinguishable colour; and the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from earth was neither more nor less than an aggregate of individual continuous horizontal marks of the inflamed colour appearing at the least refracted end of the visible spectrum great in measurement from end to end and closely compacted horizontal marks so near colourless as to have no distinguishable colour arranged in more or less a straight continuous extent of length without thickness blended together. In the region adjacent to the boundary line of the copious stream of water flowing naturally in a channel towards the sea I had the capability of delineating clearly to an almost imperceptible degree the no more than one more than one inanimate material objects so near to colourless as to have no distinguishable colour contained by the totality of the extensive view of landscape that appeared so far as could be ascertained to be in a vertical position with the lower parts fixed in the ground; a particular of the things already mentioned represented by the lowest of the cardinal numerals went on existing as the signal fire lighted on a pole with respect to which the persons occupied with navigation guided vessels by means of rudders, helms or oars - having the same characteristics as a vessel of cylindrical form, bulging in the middle and with flat ends, made of curved staves but not bound together by circular bands of metal, in the position of being supported by a long, slender, more or less cylindrical piece of wood or metal - an inanimate material object offensive to refined taste on any occasion that you existed in the realm of fact in close proximity to it in space; the one that remains from the specified group of two an upright post with a projecting arm from which bodies of criminals were hung after execution, with an indefinite (but not large) number of series of metal links passing through each other so as to form a strong but flexible means of connection to it suspended from above, which had on some past occasion prevented a person who robbed and plundered on the sea from getting down. The adult male person was continuing to progress by lifting and setting down each foot in turn so as to have one foot always on the ground in a metrically defective rhythm in the direction of the thing mentioned near the end of the preceding sentence, as if he had existence in the realm of fact as the person who robbed and plundered on the sea risen from the dead, and descended, and returning to attach himself with hooks at some distance above the ground once more. The subject of thought in question provided me with a momentary feeling of nervous shock causing a feeling similar to dread when I conceived of it in my mind; and during the time that I perceived with my eyes the animals of the genus Bos raising the foremost parts of the bodies pertaining to them into the air from the ground to direct their eyes intently in the direction of the male person previously mentioned moving away, I desired to know if it were the case that they in addition conceived of it in their minds in the way indicated. Directing my eyes in every direction without exception from a single fixed point I attempted to discover the male person not far advanced in life likely to excite a painful feeling of intense loathing or fear, and had the capacity to perceive with my eyes not any physical or non-physical indications of the presence of that male person. Despite this, at the point in the course of the narrative referred to, I was thrown into a sudden violent terror once more, and went with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both feet on the ground at the same time, to the place where I had my life prolonged permanently so as not to admit the possibility of the action of ceasing from action.
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Epigraph:
That vast aggregate of words and phrases which constitutes the vocabulary of English-speaking men presents, to the mind that endeavours to grasp it as a definite whole, the aspect of one of those nebulous masses familiar to the astronomer, in which a clear and unmistakable nucleus shades off on all sides, through zones of decreasing brightness, to a dim marginal film that seems to end nowhere, but to lose itself imperceptibly in the surrounding darkness.
(J.A.H. Murray - 'The Oxford English Dictionary' (General Explanations))
An exploded, precise and informative text, produced with the dogged assistance of 'The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'.
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