GASPARD DU NORD
"This man was Gaspard du Nord, himself a student of the proscribed sciences, who had been numbered for a year among the pupils of Nathaire but had chosen to withdraw quietly from the master's household after learning the enormities that would
"This man was Gaspard du Nord, himself a student of the proscribed sciences, who had been numbered for a year among the pupils of Nathaire but had chosen to withdraw quietly from the master's household after learning the enormities that would
attend his further initiation."
"The cathedral nave was packed with worshippers, and solemn masses were
being said by priests whose voices faltered at times with inward panic.
Unheeded by the wan, despairing throng, Gaspard found a flight of
coiling stairs that led tortuously to the gargoyle-warded roof of the
high tower."
"Here he posted himself, crouching behind the stone figure of a
cat-headed griffin. From his vantage he could see, beyond the crowded
spires and gables, the approaching giant,
whose head and torso loomed
above the city walls."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Colossus Of Ylourgne
Illustration by Liz Prince
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