Chapter 8
DOWN THE MIGHTY SLOPENow I went downward very quiet and slow into that Darkness; and
did make but a cautious way; for now you shall know me truly
wrapped about with such a night as did seem to press upon my very
soul, and such as you shall never have seen nor felt; so that I did
seem lost even from my self, and did appear as that I went
presently in unreal fashion, and did pass onward for ever and for
ever through everlasting night; so that odd whiles I did make to
walk with random, as that I stept no more upon this earth; but did
go offwards into the Void. Yet was this foolishness of the mind set
straight and proper each time that it did come about; for lo! I did
kick against an upjutting rock here, and fall upon a great and
unseen boulder there, and so was shaken ve
