by johnnydeep » Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:07 pm
neufer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:35 pm
I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I listened, I looked round me, but I could hear nothing, nor see anything; I went up to a rising ground to look farther; I went up the shore and down the shore, but it was all one; I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the print of a foot - toes, heel, and every part of a foot. How it came thither I knew not, nor could I in the least imagine; but after innumerable fluttering thoughts, perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes my affrighted imagination represented things to me in, how many wild ideas were found every moment in my fancy, and what strange, unaccountable whimsies came into my thoughts by the way.
I didn't recognize the quote, but you made me google this lucid prose, and Lo! it's from Robinson Crusoe! More context can be seen here (Not a believer myself, but I assume "BibleHub" is a resource for bible references in literature, among the many other biblical stuff I see there):
https://biblehub.com/library/defoe/robi ... ed_one.htm[quote=neufer post_id=311390 time=1615041334 user_id=124483]
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I didn't recognize the quote, but you made me google this lucid prose, and Lo! it's from Robinson Crusoe! More context can be seen here (Not a believer myself, but I assume "BibleHub" is a resource for bible references in literature, among the many other biblical stuff I see there):
https://biblehub.com/library/defoe/robinson_crusoe/chapter_fifteen_it_happened_one.htm