The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories:
CELEPHAIS
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Penguin Classics (1999), Paperback, 448 pages
Fantasy story written in November 1920.
‘Where the sea meets the sky’
Celephais is the name of a fictional city. Kuranes slowly slips away to the dream-world and creates Celephais.
In Celephais there is no perception of time: time doesn’t influence the life in this city.
‘But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, … and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into the world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.’ (p.24-5)
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