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Running Head: THE “BEYOND” REALITY
The “beyond” reality
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THE “BEYOND” REALITY
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The “beyond” reality
From the book beyond written by H.P. Lovecraft, Crawford Tillinghast was a strong believer that
there was a strange and inaccessible world which existed around us, “the beyond conception”,
that the five senses we have could not comprehend and also the fact that we see things as we are
constructed to see them. He did not buy this ideology and tirelessly worked for two and a half
months, alienating himself from his best friend and even his servants working on a way to break
the barrier between what we are meant to see and feel and what is actually happening around us
that we do not see. After finding the solution, he called his best friend to witness his invention.
He had grown thin, his baggy skin had turned yellow/ grey, had sunken eyes with dark circles,
veins were running across his forehead, unkempt hair and beard and also he was dressed
disorderly. When he opened the door to receive his friend, he kept glancing over his shoulder and
trembling as if he was frightened of the unseen in the house.
He had written his friend a message sending an invitation to come and witness his invention of
the electrical machine that he has been working on since the last time they saw each other and
since he last disappeared to do his physical and metaphysical researches, which was at his
laboratory at the attic. The machine was connected to a powerful chemical battery and did not
receive any current but was glowing with a violet luminosity. He made the protagonist sit next to
the machine and turned it on; producing some luminosity assuming a blend of colours which
wasn’t familiar and Crawford told him that it was ultraviolet. Normally, these rays are not visible
but the waves from the machine opened up a sense in them to see things no other creature had
seen yet. These sleeping senses were awakened by the waves from the machine which were
inherited from the eons of evolution from the state of detached electrons to the state of organic
humanity (Lovecraft, 1934).
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While in the room, the protagonist started seeing things that a were bizarre like how the southern
wall was sloping and rays lighting the wall, he even envisioned himself in a big temple of the
dead gods with black stone columns running from the slab to an infinite height beyond his vision
then after a while gave in to a sightless, soundless and infinite space which brought fear into him.
He wished the servants were around but he was all alone with Crawford who was by now
terrifying him with these revelations. He reached out in his pocket and drew a revolver which he
carried in the night since he was held up in East Providence. While seated there drawn to a
totally different world, the protagonist started hearing subtle, musical sounds and a cold draught
swept past him.
He told Crawford what he had felt and heard and was ordered to stay quiet and calm as the
servants were told not to move but the house help went ahead and switched on the lights
downstairs and the electric wires picked up the vibrations and they all disappeared vaguely
leaving heaps of empty clothes. This revelation and command paralyzed the protagonist in fear.
He realized space was totally occu...