[HP Lovecraft, The crypt , 1926].
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The Romanesque church of San Felices, or Felix in Uncastillo (Zaragoza), finished at 1159-1169, was "restored" not long ago. At least the cover was restored and tidy up a bit the rest. However, this building being raised on a hillside, you must level with the ground structure, which makes using a small crypt, located under the apse of the presbytery.
It is a single space, with thick walls, low height canopy, thick nerves and size uncertain ...
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A considerable time exceeded the thickness of the wall, which is the threshold, access is a dark, dimly lit by low external light entering through loopholes and limited narrow doorway. We must tread slowly, carefully, not to lift the thick layer of dust that covers the ground, and threatens our proper breathing.
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In inside must move carefully, because their walls are stained with black mold that does not bode well for our lungs, large cobwebs hanging from the ceiling as pathetic curtains, and also because all space is occupied by huge piles of tiles, left over from the last restoration, "and we trip over the many rocks that are piled haphazardly.
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Among these stones reports, noble old stones, which were displayed segmental curves, checkered and shaped, poor lost memories of the remodeled home archivolts south. We can also guess, from that chaotic maremagnum, stones carved with ribs of similar origin.
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In the west face the crypt is closed by a wall, added at an unknown date, which the foundation stones have fallen over, revealing that behind there is a space filled with rubble and stones piled badly, sausages in disarray. However, to value the continuity of the vault, a clear indication that the crypt extends under the ship and was blinded in uncertain times.
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Why do not they have cleared and cleaned the area, to dignify and put in value, perhaps as a small museum of stone remains of lost door? Why has not been excavated and explored the rest of the crypt, whose fillers are perhaps still carved Romanesque art?
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to whom it may concern do things by halves, with obvious reluctance and in a hurry, go chained to pillory, the stocks in chains, to meditate on the severity of their neglect. Or if you prefer, rather than the pillory, is chained to the stocks within of this crypt, to share the bread and water rats, spiders, and ghosts that inhabit ...
Health and fraternity.