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Updated: May 24, 2025
That is the weird inspiration of our estate: you and I have no business to be here at all. We are all REVENANTS; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about. Just as Europe was about to be gathered in silence to Assyria and Babylon, something entered into its body. And Europe has had a strange life it is not too much to say that it has had the JUMPS ever since.
We don't want literary revenants, superfluous veterans, writers who have worn out their welcome and still insist on being attended to. Give us something fresh, something that belongs to our day and generation. Your morning draught was well enough, but we don't care for your evening slip-slop. You are not in relation with us, with our time, our ideas, our aims, our aspirations."
From a week-end at home I stood among a number of soldiers who were going back to the front, after one of those leaves. The boat warped away from the pier, the M. T. O. and a small group of officers, detectives, and Red Cross men disappeared behind an empty train, and the "revenants" on deck stared back at the cliffs of England across a widening strip of sea.
Lord Wadaster had uttered something tolerably similar: 'I am a sinner, and in good society. Sir Abraham Hartiston, a minor satellite of the Regent, diversified this: 'I am a sinner, and go to good society. Madame la Comtesse de la Roche-Aigle, the cause of many deaths, declared it unwomanly to fear anything save 'les revenants. Yet the countess could say the pretty thing: 'Foot on a flower, then think of me!
"I know what you might do, or may have done. I know just as well what you have never done and could never do." "But I have done some horrible things, Seymour." "They are past. Let us forget them." "But horrible things come back in one's life! They are like revenants. After years they rise up." "What is the matter, Adela? Do tell me." "I want to, but I'm afraid."
'Eh quoi! said Perrine, 'it is only ondoyee. You can have all the ceremonies if ever time shall fit; but do you think I could leave my Lady's child mere girl though it be alone with owls, and follets, and REVENANTS, and heretics, and she unbaptized? She would be a changeling long ere morning, I trow.
I had a short time before sat infructuously with this lady, when a distressing contretemps occurred. We were going in for a dark séance then, and just as we fancied the revenants were about to justify the title, we were startled by a crash, and on my lighting up, all of the medium I could see were two ankles protruding from beneath the table.
As usual amongst Fetish worshippers, the only trace of belief in a future state is faith in revenants returning men or ghosts. Each village has an idol under a little wall-less roof, apparently an earthern pot of grease and feathers, called Mavunga.
They must be a very aged or very stupid sort of revenants if their palingenetic substance does not thrill at the first nightly vision of Broadway, of that fairy flare of electric lights, advertising whiskeys and actresses and beers, and luring the beholder into a hundred hotels and theatres and restaurants.
In this lonely wilderness they thought that tupapaus, the ghosts of the departed, must have their assembly, and deep in their hearts was a deadly fear of these revenants. When we approached the umu, I felt the heat fifty feet away. The pit was a mass of glowing stones, and half a dozen men whom I knew were spreading them as evenly as possible, turning them with long poles.
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