Character in Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey; As Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury, Who Promised to Print the Same, but Finally Evaded the Responsibility, Which was Assigned by John Uri Lloyd, With Many Illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp (Cincinnati: J. U. Lloyd, 1895). From Etidorhpa (1895): The speaker stood in a stooping position, with his face towards the earth as if to shelter it from the sunshine. He was less than five feet in height. His arms and legs were bare, and his skin, the color of light blue putty, glistened in the sunlight like the slimy hide of a water dog. He raised his head, and I shuddered in aff’right as I beheld that his face was not that of a human. His forehead extended in an unbroken plane from crown to cheek bone, and the chubby tip of an abortive nose without nostrils formed a short projection near the center of the level ridge which represented a countenance. There was no semblance of an eye, for there were no sockets. Yet his voice was singularly perfect. His face, if face it could be called, was wet, and water dripped from all parts of his slippery person. Yet, repulsive as he looked, I shuddered more at the remembrance of the touch of that cold, clammy hand than at the sight of his figure, for a dead man could not have chilled me as he had done, with his sappy skin, from which the moisture seemed to ooze as from the hide of a water lizard.
Alias I-Am-All-Eye
Real Names/Alt Names The Custodian, The Eyeless Seer, My Eyeless Guide, My Eyeless Pilot
First Appearance Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth (1895)
First Publisher J. U. Lloyd
Appearance List Later editions: Second edition (1896), Reprintings (1897, 1898, 1899), Revised (1901, 1904, 1913), Abridged reprints (1920s–1930s), etc.
Description Character in Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey; As Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury, Who Promised to Print the Same, but Finally Evaded the Responsibility, Which was Assigned by John Uri Lloyd, With Many Illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp (Cincinnati: J. U. Lloyd, 1895). From Etidorhpa (1895): The speaker stood in a stooping position, with his face towards the earth as if to shelter it from the sunshine. He was less than five feet in height. His arms and legs were bare, and his skin, the color of light blue putty, glistened in the sunlight like the slimy hide of a water dog. He raised his head, and I shuddered in aff’right as I beheld that his face was not that of a human. His forehead extended in an unbroken plane from crown to cheek bone, and the chubby tip of an abortive nose without nostrils formed a short projection near the center of the level ridge which represented a countenance. There was no semblance of an eye, for there were no sockets. Yet his voice was singularly perfect. His face, if face it could be called, was wet, and water dripped from all parts of his slippery person. Yet, repulsive as he looked, I shuddered more at the remembrance of the touch of that cold, clammy hand than at the sight of his figure, for a dead man could not have chilled me as he had done, with his sappy skin, from which the moisture seemed to ooze as from the hide of a water lizard.
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