unnatural and accursed. 

In my days only did I attain any measure of happiness.
My nights marked the reign of fear--and such fear! I
make bold to state that no man of all the men who walk
the earth with me ever suffer fear of like kind and
degree.  For my fear is the fear of long ago, the fear
that was rampant in the Younger World, and in the youth
of the Younger World.  In short, the fear that reigned
supreme in that period known as the Mid-Pleistocene. 

What do I mean? I see explanation is necessary before I
can tell you of the substance of my dreams.  Otherwise,
little could you know of the meaning of the things I
know so well.  As I write this, all the beings and
happenings of that other world rise up before me in
vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would
be rhymeless and reasonless. 

What to you the friendship of Lop-Ear, the warm lure of