穿越终极之门的伦道夫卡特看到各个平行宇宙的自己,有动物,植物,无机物,乃至外星人版本和异维度版本的自己
He was in many places at the same time. OnEarth, on October 7, 1883, a little boy named Randolph Carter was leaving theSnake Den in the hushed evening light and running down the rocky slope, andthrough the twisted-boughed orchard toward his Uncle Christopher’s house in thehills beyond Arkham; yet at that same moment, which was also somehow in theearthly year of 1928, a vague shadow not less Randolph Carter was sitting on apedestal among the Ancient Ones in Earth’s transdimensional extension. Here,too, was a third Randolph Carter, in the unknown and formless cosmic abyssbeyond the Ultimate Gate. And elsewhere, in a chaos of scenes whose infinitemultiplicity and monstrous diversity brought him close to the brink of madness,were a limitless confusion of beings which he knew were as much himself as thelocal manifestation now beyond the Ultimate Gate.
There were Carters in settings belonging toevery known and suspected age of Earth’s history, and to remoter ages ofearthly entity transcending knowledge, suspicion, and credibility; Carters offorms both human and non-human, vertebrate and invertebrate, conscious andmindless, animal and vegetable. And more, there were Carters having nothing incommon with earthly life, but moving outrageously amidst backgrounds of otherplanets and systems and galaxies and cosmic continua; spores of eternal lifedrifting from world to world, universe to universe, yet all equally himself.Some of the glimpses recalled dreams — both faint and vivid, single andpersistent — which he had had through the long years since he first began todream; and a few possessed a haunting, fascinating and almost horriblefamiliarity which no earthly logic could explain.
