Phantastes

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effectively ousted, and had colored with obscurity the dividers to which, bat-like, it had clung, these shapes served however sick to illuminate the desolate hangings, and appeared to toss yet hazier shadows into the hollows of the profound created molding. All the further parts of the room lay covered in a secret whose most profound folds were assembled around the dim oak bureau which I currently drew closer with a weird blending of love and interest. Maybe, similar to a geologist, I was going to go up to the light a portion of the covered layers of the human world, with its fossil remains singed by energy and froze by tears. Maybe I was to figure out how my dad, whose individual history was obscure to me, had woven his trap of story; how he had discovered the world, and how the world had left him. Maybe I was to discover just the records of grounds and cash, how gotten and how made sure about; descending from weird men, and through difficult occasions, to me, who knew close to nothing or nothing of all. To illuminate my hypotheses, and to scatter the a