Nightmare

water colour, Kennington, 181 x 123 mm

'Nightmare. Chap. XXXIII' typeset brc of page, over-printed in white on black border. Caricature of Lawrence in pink, brc, confronted by huge and ghastly representation of Hamed the Moor spouting forth five streams of red blood, against a confused landscape in blue and black.

p 165 [tr ed pp 185/6] - 'The illness, however, had stimulated my ordinarily sluggish fancy, which ran riot this night in dreams of wandering naked for a dark eternity over interminable lava (like scrambled egg gone iron-blue, and very wrong), sharp as insect-bites underfoot; and with some horror, perhaps a dead Moor, always climbing after us.'

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