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/TheEyeintheWaste - /YonaththeProphet
== Of the Thing that is Neither God nor Beast ==
Seeing that wisdom is not in cities nor happiness in wisdom,
and because Yadin the prophet was doomed by the gods, ere he
was born, to go in search of wisdom, he followed the
caravans to Bodrahahn. There in the evening, when the
camels rest, when the wind of the day ebbs out into the
desert sighing amid the palms its last farewells and leaving
the caravans still, he sent his prayer with the wind to
drift into the desert calling to Hoodrazai. 
And down the wind his prayer went calling: "Why do the
gods endure, and play their game with men? Why doth not
Skarl forsake his drumming, and MANA cease to rest?" and the
echo of seven deserts answered: "Who knows? Who knows?" 
But out of the waste beyond the seven deserts where
Ranorada looms enormous in the dusk, at evening his prayer
was heard; and from the rim of the waste whither had gone
his prayer, came three flamingoes flying, and their voices
said: "Going South, Going South" at every stroke of their
wings. 
But as they passed by the prophet they seemed so cool and
free and the desert so blinding and hot that he stretched up
his arms towards them. Then it seemed happy to fly and
pleasant to follow behind great white wings, and he was with
the three flamingoes up in the cool above the desert, and
their voices cried before him: "Going South, Going South,"
and the desert behind him mumbled: "Who knows? Who knows?" 
Sometimes the earth stretched up towards them with peaks
of mountains, sometimes it fell away in steep ravines, blue
rivers sang to them as they passed above them, or very
faintly came the song of breezes in lone orchards, and far
away the sea sang mighty dirges of old forsaken isles. But
it seemed that in all the world there was nothing only to be
going South. 
It seemed that somewhere the South was calling to her
own, and that they were going South. 
But when the prophet saw that they had passed above the
edge of Earth, and that far away to the North of them lay
the Moon, he perceived that he was following no mortal birds
but some strange messengers of Hoodrazai whose nest had lain
in one of Pegana's vales below the mountains whereon sit the
gods. 
Still they went South, passing by all the Worlds and
leaving them to the North, till only Araxes, Zadres, and
Hyraglion lay still to the South of them, where great Ingazi
seemed only a point of light, and Yo and Mindo could be seen
no more. 
Still they went South till they passed below the South
and came to the Rim of the Worlds. 
There there is neither South nor East nor West, but only
North and Beyond; there is only North of it where lie the
worlds, and Beyond where lies the Silence; and the Rim is a
mass of rocks that were never used by the gods when They
made the Worlds, and on it sat Trogool. Trogool is the
Thing that is neither god nor beast, who neither howls nor
breaths, only IT turns over the leaves of a great book,
black and white, black and white for ever until THE END. 
And all that is to be is written in the book, as also all
that was. 
When IT turneth a black page it is night, and when IT
turneth a white page it is day. 
Because it is written that there are gods -- there are
the gods. 
Also there is writing about thee and me until the page
where our names no more are written. 
Then as the prophet watched IT, Trogool turned a page --
a black one, and night was over, and day shone on the
Worlds. 
Trogool is the Thing that men in many countries have
called by many names, IT is the Thing that sits behind the
gods, whose book is the Scheme of Things. 
But when Yadin saw that old remembered days were hidden
away with the part that IT had turned, and knew that upon
one whose name is writ no more the last page had turned for
ever a thousand pages back, then did he utter his prayer in
the face of Trogool who only turns the pages and never
answers prayer. He prayed in the face of Trogool: "Only
turn back thy pages to the name of one which is writ no
more, and far away upon a place named Earth shall rise the
prayers of a little people that acclaim the name of Trogool,
for there is indeed far off a place called Earth where men
shall pray to Trogool." 
Then spake Trogool who turns the pages and never answers
prayer, and his voice was like the murmurs of the waste at
night when echoes have been lost: "Though the whirlwind of
the South should tug with his claws at a page that hath been
turned yet shall he not be able ever to turn it back." 
Then because of words in the book that said it should be
so, Yadin found himself lying in the desert where one gave
him water, and afterwards carried him on a camel into
Bodrahahn. 
There some said that he had but dreamed when thirst had
seized him while he wandered among the rocks in the desert.
But certain aged men of Bodrahahn say that indeed there
sitteth somewhere a Thing that is called Trogool, that is
neither god nor beast, that turned the leaves of a book,
black and white, black and white, until he come to the
words: MAI DOON IZAHN, which means The End For Ever, and
book and gods and worlds shall be no more.
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+[[LordDunsanysPegana/OftheThingthatisNeitherGodnorBeast/TheEyeintheWaste]] -[[LordDunsanysPegana/OftheThingthatisNeitherGodnorBeast/YonaththeProphet]]
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 == Of the Thing that is Neither God nor Beast ==
 Seeing that wisdom is not in cities nor happiness in wisdom,

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