The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth is bodying forth a principle which will later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, As above, so below. In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores.

Praise […] owes its value only to its scarcity.

The Captain thought so, and raved about her in uncouth convulsions. The barbed shaft of love had penetrated his dull hide. Six weeks—appropinquity—opportunity—had victimised him completely.

The present story, Born of the Winds, is one of the best. For one thing, the vision of the story is pure Lovecraftian cosmic pessimism.