i felt a funeral in my brain and mourners to and fro kept treading treading till it seemed that sense was breaking through and when they all were seated a service like a drum kept beating beating till i thought my mind was going numb and then i heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again then space began to toll as all the heavens were a bell and being but an ear and i and silence some strange race wrecked solitary here and then a plank in reason broke and i dropped down and down and hit a world at every plunge and finished knowing then 2