The Strangest Things of the World

'I saw a brilliant golden haze, a nebulous cloud of yellow light, to my enfeebled sense, without form or meaning. Under that pale, modest radiance, seated at a trestle table, was a venerable, white bearded old man.' 'Never so far, perhaps, in long centuries of intercourse with brave but licentious peoples, had a face like his,' he said. He went on for some time until the stillness broke and an impalpable something appeared before him speaking of change and novelty. And i involuntarily escaped from all recesses, seeing nothing around me there'.