Now by this nearness, I was the more truly able to perceive how
that the Bulk of the Watcher did rise up into the Night, like a
Hill; and the colour was mostly black, save and indeed where it did
face to the red shine of the Pit; and concerning this I have done
telling.
And so did I lie there, and stare a great while, parting a small
hole in the moss-bushes that I might spy through the same. And the
thing was squat there, and might have root within the earth, so it
did seem to mine imaginings, as I did stare with a dumb wonder. And
there were monstrous warts upon the thing, and indents and a mighty
ruggedness and lumpings; as it were that it did be pimpled with
great boulders that were inbred within that monstrous hide. And
where the shine from the Pit of Red Fire did strike up
