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There is nothing more absurdly incongruous, ironic perhaps, than the burning fear found

in the hearts of all men, the fear of death.

Ironic, I say, for it is only those who have known death's euphoric touch who find

their eyes opened to the truer horror of waking life.

And woe betide those who would cling to life by

arcane and unnatural means, for they may find themselves by choice, in the place where I am now

forced to dwell, an existence betwixt in between, neither dead nor living, tantalizingly close

to the former yet privy to the singular repugnance of the latter.

For untold eons, my world was an exquisite void, surrounded by the dark limestone grottoes

beneath those English hills known as the Mendips. Only vague recollections of my life before

the void had intruded upon my bliss. Fragments of a

naively halcyon time when I served a Phrygian priest who shepherded his flock in the worship of Sibyl.

Long after my death, the spot underwent many changes, first under the Romans, then with the

coming of the Saxons and the Christian

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