5/19 It was a new unearthly language, more like a glimpse of the next world than anything in this. Nothing could have done more to counteract the effects of the godless din that bowled me over in the other cavern. He was heaving now as he tried to master himself. I heard him exclaiming-- "Oh my God!" as if the physical torture were unbearable. He had shifted his position so as to watch me, and he seemed to expect me to collapse. |