H. P. Lovecraft
Memory
Published: 1919
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~30 minutes hours
Memory by H. P. Lovecraft asks what will outlast humanity. In the valley of Nis, two ancient spirits try to recall who built its ruined palaces.
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Beside the river Than, a genie asks who laid the marble now pried apart by roots. The daemon remembers the builders' name but can barely recall their shape. In Memory, the stones have lasted much longer than anyone's recollection of the lives behind them.
Only a few paragraphs long, this illustrated prose poem gives its last image to a creature that has no reason to miss us.