It's a horrible mistake to be so spiritual, at least in that kind of way.

You should eat and drink, and sleep ten hours as I do, and not go craving for vision till you can see, and praying for power until you can create." "See! Create! Who?
What ?" "The inhabitant, or inhabitants.

Just think, you may have been building her up all this time, imagination by imagination, and thought by thought.

Then her day might come, and all that you have put out piecemeal will return at once.

Yes, she may appear, and take you, and possess you, and lead you----" "She?
Why she?
and where ?" "To the devil, I imagine," answered Mary composedly, "and as you are a man one can guess the guide's sex.