======= Der Wanderer durch den See =======

Also known as '//The Walker by the Lake//', this book was written by [[Alexander Roby]] and published, in 1923, by Whitehall Press, a vanity publisher. The book is bound in all-white cloth, blank cover and spine. The title page gives the title, in German and English, the author's initials 'A R' and a quote from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge|Coleridge]] - **//Suppression Prepares for Overflow.//** 

Neither narrative, nor poetry, nor drama, the book is nonetheless fascinating reading, with the text is split into halves headed [[https://unboundbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/10-Quotations-from-Der-Wanderer-durch-den-See.pdf|'First Act' and 'Second Act']] and describes the dreams of an unnamed man, in the form of a case history. The dreams themselves are all recounted in German, though the rest of the text is in English. It seems a fair guess that the book is in some way autobiographical.

The dreams relate to a power that the dreamer slowly comes to know, a power he refers to as 'The King', 'Kaiwan' or 'the Unspeakable One'. Eventually he visits the city of [[Carcosa]], a place of beauty and contentment.

=====Events Surrounding the Book=====

Der Wanderer durch den See was a key driver of the party's early investigations: 
  * [[Doctor Lionel Trollope]] was reading from this book - Roby reciting the text from memory alongside him - when he had a vision of his own death, a vision that proved all too accurate.
  * [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett|Doctor Bartlett]] tasked [[Nathaniel Browne]] with finding a copy pf this book, although the party was given a copy of the book by [[Delia Hartston|Delia Morrison]] before he could source one.
  * Browne eagerly read the book once he received it, and while he instinctively knew that it held a deeper, more mystical meaning than what appeared in the text, he was unable to comprehend it fully.
  * The investigators' first copy of the book was lent to [[Talbot Estus]], who burned it on the night of his suicide. A replacement copy was later found in [[Lawrence Bacon|Lawrence Bacon's]] home, an then further copies were later found during their investigations.