... "In other time the El-Woman sat only in waste places, and by
solitary ways. But now in the shadows of cities she offers her breasts
to youth; and he whom she entices, presently goes mad, and becomes, like
herself, a hollowness. For the higher ghosts that entered into the
making of him perish at that goblin-touch,--die as the pupa dies in the
cocoon, leaving only a shell and dust behind...."