Alpha Book

"That is what happened. We were too near together again; the same
spark leaped, the same blindness struck us, the same impulse swayed
us--call it what we will!--and it quickened out of chaos, grew from
nothing into unreasoning existence. It was the terrific menace of
emotion, stunning us both--simply because you are you and I am I.
And that is what happened.
"We cannot deny it; we may not have believed it possible--or in
fact considered it at all. I did not; I am sure you did not. Yet it
occurred, and we cannot deny it, and we can no more explain or
understand it than we can understand each other.
"But one thing we do know--not through reason but through sheer
instinct: We cannot venture to meet again--that way. For I, it
seems, am a man like other men except that I lack character; and
you are--_you_! still unchanged--with all the mystery of
attraction, all the magic force of vitality, all the esoteric
subtlety with which you enveloped me the first moment my eyes met
yours.


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