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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Young Wilcox’s rejoinder, which impressed my uncle enough to make him recall and record it verbatim, was of a fantastically poetic cast which must have typified his whole conversation, and which I have since found highly characteristic of him.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

He said, “It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.”


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

It was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

There had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in New England for some years;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

and Wilcox’s imagination had been keenly affected.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, “Cthulhu fhtagn”.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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