Below the Brutes

I slipped out of time altogether into eternity;

I felt myself in the presence of some tremendous influence for good or evil. I felt as though I had been born.

It’s like this: nothing had ever happened to me in my life before. You know how it is when you come out of ether or nitrous-oxide at the dentist’s — you come back to somewhere, a familiar somewhere; but the place from which you have come is nowhere, and yet you have been there.

That is what happened to me.

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