To
W. L. Courtney.
It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the
Celtic Drama.... And it is Destiny, that sombre
Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath, whose
menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote
life I know, and hence glooms also this book of interpretations:
for pages of life must either be interpretative
or merely documentary, and these following
pages have for the most part been written as by one
who repeats, with curious insistence, a haunting,
familiar, yet ever wild and remote air, whose obscure
meanings he would fain reiterate, interpret.”
(From the Prologue to The Sin-Eater.)
