NO INCIDENTAL MUSIC

   All anticipation is keener, be it of joy or pain, than the reality whereof it is a mental forecast; but that inactive waiting at Redmoat, for the blow which we knew full well to be pending exceeded in its nerve taxation, anything I hitherto had experienced.

     I felt as one bound upon an Aztec altar, with the priest's obsidian knife raised above my breast!

     Secret and malign forces throbbed about us; forces against which we had no armor. Dreadful as it was, I count it a mercy that the climax was reached so quickly. And it came suddenly enough; for there in that quiet Norfolk home we found ourselves at hand grips with one of the mysterious horrors which characterized the operations of Dr. Fu-Manchu. It was upon us before we realized it. There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

Text:  Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, Ch. IX, 1913

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THAT THOUGHT

“I ceased to pursue a train of thought which promised to lead to morbid depths, and directed my attention to what Smith was saying.”

Note:  Creepy what's that or providential optimism pivot?  Who knows? Something’s happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear.  Happy New Year!




Text:  Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, 1913.




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