...nothingness out of which you made me. . . . "I am perishing already — I am failing — I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space,...and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...

...myself," says Philip, like Prospero breaking his wand, " have no existence ; I am but a dream. . . . In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space,...and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better...

...nothingness out of which you made me. . . . "I am perishing already — I am failing — I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space,...and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...

...a more hysterical and total version of Adams's own despair. Here is a part of Satan's last speech. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space,...limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever ... It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no...

...alone in a shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever—for you will remain a Thought, the only existent Thought,...and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I your poor servant have revealed you to yourself and set you free." (p. 404) In spite of cognitive...

...qualification. "Life itself is only a vision, a dream. . . . Nothing exists save empty space — and you! . . . you will remain a Thought, the only existent Thought,...nature inextinguishable, indestructible. . . . Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions,...

...nothingness out of which you made me. . . . "I am perishing already — I am failing — I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space,...and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...

...dissolving. But he has more to say before he goes: "I am perishing already—I am failing, I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space,...its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever—for you will remain a Thought, the only existent Thought, and by your nature inextinguishable,...

...estrangement and alienation are imaginatively transformed into an absolute condition. August is left "alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever" (MS, 186). V Mark Twain had concluded his essay "Old Age" on a similar note of dreary isolation. At...