"But then a gash of horrible light fell brutally across the room from the opening door--the snow drew back hissing--something alien had come into the room--something hostile. This thing rushed at him, clutched at him, shook him--and he was not merely horrified, he was filled with such a loathing as he had never known. What was this? this cruel disturbance? this act of anger and hate? It was as if he had to reach up a hand toward another world for any understanding of it --an effort of which he was only barely capable. But of that other world he still remembered just enough to know the exorcising words. They tore themselves from his other life suddenly-----
"Mother! Mother! Go away! I hate you!"
"And with that effort, everything was solved, everything became all right: the seamless hiss advanced once more, the long white wavering lines rose and fell like enormous whispering sea-waves, the whisper becoming louder, the laughter more numerous.
"Listen!" it said. "We'll tell you the last, the most beautiful and secret story--shut your eyes--it is a very small story--a story that gets smaller and smaller--it comes inward instead of opening like a flower --it is a flower becoming a seed--a little cold seed--do you hear? we are leaning closer to you-----"
The hiss was now becoming a roar--the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow--but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep."
Conrad Aiken - "Silent Snow, Secret Snow"
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