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Quote from Machen, on trying to capture a feeling inspired by Roman ruins: "I transliterated it, clumsily enough, in the story of 'The Great God Pan,' which, as a friendly critic once said, 'does at least make one believe in the devil, if it does nothing else.' Here, of course, was my real failure; I translated awe, at worst awfulness, into evil; again, I say, one dreams in fire and works in clay." That fits.