Will Self's Collected Fiction by Will Self

Author:Will Self
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The North London Book of the Dead (Reprise)

The dreamer finds housed within himself – occupying, as it were, some separate chamber in his brain – holding, perhaps, from that station a detestable commerce with his own heart – some horrid alien nature. What if it were his own nature repeated – still, if the duality were distinctly perceptible even that – even this mere numeric double of his own consciousness – might be a curse too mighty to be sustained. But how if the alien nature contradicts his own, fights with it, perplexes it and confounds it? How again, if not one alien nature, but two, but three, but four, but five, are introduced within what once he thought the inviolable sanctuary of himself? These however, are horrors from the kingdom of anarchy and darkness, which, by their very intensity, challenge the sanctity of concealment and gloomily retire from exposition.

De Quincey, The English Mail Coach

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.