Re: Chapter 1.5: To a God Unknown
The tomes themselves are thick, and it is apparent that each of them will take a substantial period of time to study. Looking through them, however, a reader might easily be able to get at least a hint of an idea of what each book was about.
Life as a God was bound in white leather over wood. The pages were unnumbered, but seemed to be around perhaps just over a hundred and fifty in rough aproximation. This is a holographic diary account, handwritten by the author - Mongomery Crompton, a British soldier and artist. The text is sloppy and erratic in brown, and sometimes fading, black ink. Amateurishly bound, the book's spine is separating in places.
People of the Monolith was also bound in white leather, but hand crafted with an eye towards quality bordering on opulence. The pages and leather cover are excellently hand-stitched and the paper used is top quality. The pages themselves were printed as individual lithographic plates, that is to say, etched on plates rather than with a regular moveable-type press. Every page has elaborate geometrical designs along the boarder; there is no artwork as such, save for grotesques incorporated into the first letter of each poem. The most striking feature of the book is the unusual medallion on the front cover. It appears to be a very thin slice of some sort of polished translucent rock placed over a thin sliver backing, creating a weird mirror-like effect in rich gray and white tones. The pattern of crystal formation is highly symmetrical.
The front page bears, in a bold hand, a dedication “To Mister Roger Carlyle. I hope you find these words to be as inspiring as yours were to me at our last meeting. My regards to Anastasia—Tyler.” There is no publisher or date of publication given. It seemed at a glance to simply contain poetry.
The Pnakotic Manuscripts is a manuscripb bound in pale green leather. The cover has no title, only a peculiar pentagram-like symbol, seared into the heavy bindings. The title page gives the work’s name,
followed by a subtitle “As written in the so-called Pnakotik Scrolls, as translatid from the Greke by
the author togeder with addicional remarkes upon that worke in the light of Newe Lerning.” The book appears to be a translation of a series of Greek documents sharing the title of the work. The print is neat, typeset in archaic English. A printer’s mark says “Trevisa et fils. 1496,” but the binding appears to be much more recent.
Sélections de Livre d'Ivon is a parchment bundle numbering 179 pages. The pages are obviously old, and have suffered from both the elements and the negligence of past owners. The most obvious damage to the work is that the back edge of each sheet is ragged. The work is handwritten and copiously illuminated with grotesque faces, obscene marginalia, and a recurring curious sigil resembling a triskelion.
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