Scribblings on the Margins

Short notes and quotes that otherwise might have fallen by the wayside. Your tumbling guide is Andreas Jungherr.
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind. 1st sentences of Algernon Blackwood: The Insanity of Jones (A Study in Reincarnation)