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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: remote and desolate places.
In 1909 I spent a month in the Himalayas,
and in 1911 roused much attention through a camel trip into the
unknown deserts of Arabia. What happened on those journeys I have
never been able to learn.
During the summer of l9l2 I chartered
a ship and sailed in the Arctic, north of Spitzbergen, afterward
showing signs of disappointment.
Later in that year I spent
weeks - alone beyond the limits of previous or subsequent exploration
in the vast limestone cavern systems of western Virginia - black
 Shadow out of Time |