The moon glazed my midnight labours. I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
Now afternoons were also given over to sleep, now he was only awake for a couple hours at daybreak.
I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold the world the deepest
mysteries of creation.
He knew that his immediate obligation was to dream. He wanted to dream a man; he wanted
to dream him in minute entirely and impose him in reality.
Such the words of fate, enounced to destroy me. I felt as if my soul were grappling with a
palpable enemy. I closed not my eyes that night. Soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.
The purpose which guided him was not impossible, though supernatural. He closed his pallid eyes and slept, not through weakness of flesh, but through determination of will.
Such the words of fate, enounced to destroy me. I felt as if my soul were grappling with a
palpable enemy
He knew that this temple was the place required for his invincible intent;
After having formed this determination, and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.
He took up the heart again, invoked the name of a planet, and undertook the vision of another of the principal organs. Within a year he had come to the skeleton and the eyelids. The innumerable hair was perhaps the most difficult task.
Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet I clung to the hope which the
next day or the next hour might realise.
Often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness
which perpetually increased, I brought my work to a near conclusion.
At first, his dreams were chaotic; then in a short while they became dialectic in nature.
He tried to assemble the student body but scarcely had he articulated a few brief words of exhortation
when it became deformed and was then erased. In his almost perpetual vigil, tears of anger burned his
old eyes.
Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?
