Etidorhpa – My Unbidden Guest Departs
Once more I must presume to interrupt this narrative, and call back the reader’s thoughts from those mysterious caverns through which we have been tracing the rapid footsteps of the man who was abducted, and his uncouth pilot of the lower realms. Let us now see and hear what took place in my room, in Cincinnati, just after my visitor, known to us as The-Man-Who-Did-It, had finished reading to me, Lewellyn Drury, the custodian of...
Etidorhpa – My Weight Disappearing
[postpic=center]99974[/postpic] We halted suddenly, for we came unexpectedly to the edge of a precipice, twenty feet at least in depth. ” Let us jump down,” said my guide. ” That would be dangerous,” I answered; ” can not we descend at some point where it is not so deep?” ” No; the chasm stretches for miles across our path, and at this point we will meet with the least difficulty; besides,...
Etidorhpa – My Unbidden Guest Proves His Statements, and Refutes My Philosophy
Let the reader who has followed this strange story which I am directed to title ” The End of Earth,” and who, in imagination, has traversed the cavernous passages of the underworld and listened to the conversation of those two personages who journeyed towards the secrets of the Beyond, return now to upper earth, and once more enter my secluded lodgings, the home of Llewellen Drury, him who listened to the aged guest and...
Etidorhpa – I Rebel Against Continuing the Journey
[postpic=center]99963[/postpic] As we paced along, meditating, I became more sensibly impressed with the fact that our progress was down a rapid declination. The saline incrustations, fungi and stalagmites, rapidly changed in appearance, an endless variety of stony figures and vegetable cryptogams recurring successively before my eyes. They bore the shape of trees, shrubs, or animals, fixed and silent as statues: at least in my...
Etidorhpa – The Food of Man
” This leads me to remark,: answered the eyeless seer, ” that you speak without due consideration of previous experience. You are, or should be, aware of other and as marked differences in food products of upper Earth, induced by climate, soil, and cultivation. The potato which, next to wheat, rice or corn, you know supplies nations of men with starchy food, originated as a wild weed in South America and Mexico, where it...