I am lifted up, I am brandished by an unknown blade in the middle of a globe of extraordinary light.

The shell----I! And I am falling, I fall continually, fantastically.

I fall out of this world; and in that fractured flash I saw myself again--I thought of my bowels and my heart hurled to the winds--and I heard voices saying again and again--far, far away--"Simon Paulin died at the age of thirty-six.".