Skale

The name Skale sounded to him big, yet he somehow pictured to himself an ascetic-faced man of small stature pursuing in solitude some impossible ideal.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

It was, in a word, as if the name Skale uttered had summoned to the front, through all disguising barriers of flesh, her true and naked spirit, that which neither ages nor dies, that which the eyes, when they rest upon a human countenance, can never see -- the Soul itself!

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

Born in Skale, Galicia, in 1890, she was a lively child, musically talented and academically gifted, but her early childhood was marred by the death of her mother when Shtok was two years old.

Fradel Shtok. 2009

In 1904 the family moved to Skale-bay-Oytsov (Ojców, 16 km nnw of Cracow), the “Switzerland of Poland,” where Rikudah was born in 1906 and which inspired her early nature poetry.

Rikudah Potash. 2009

And just after it he heard, unmistakably, the long soft stride of Skale going past his door and down the whole length of the corridor -- stealthily, very quickly, with the hurry of anxiety or alarm in his silence and his speed.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

Behind all sounds he divined for the first time a majesty that appalled; his imagination, glorified by Skale, instantly fell to constructing the forms they bodied forth.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

Skale still remains the great battering force of his life that carried him off his feet towards the stars, and sent his imagination with wings of fire tearing through the Unknown to a goal that once attained should make them all four as gods.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

"The deaf hear!" repeated Skale in a shout, and was across the room with the impetus of a released projectile.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

And then Skale announced that the time was ready for rehearsals.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910

Skale strode first, Spinrobin following with beating heart; he held Miriam by the hand; his steps, though firm enough, made him think of his efforts as a boy when treading water for solid ground out of his depth.

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910