H G Wells

Star Begotten - Original Edition H G Wells

Only-and this was a thing that came to him by such imperceptible degrees that at no time was he able to get it in such a way that he could ask questions about it-ever and again there was an effect as though this sure and certain established world was just in some elusive manner at this point or that point translucent, translucent and a little threadbare, and as though something else quite different lay behind it. It was never transparent. It was commonly, nine days out of ten, a full, complete universe and then for a moment, for a phase, for a perplexing interval, it was as if it was a painted screen that hid-What did it hide?