Nicely done, and I like the very impressive vocabulary. Great job painting a very thorough picture of your characters plight, and then BAM, hitting with that conundrum full force.
I really appreciate your positive feedback. I do urge you to give Lovecraft’s story a try. There’s a boffo recording by Roddy McDowell http://youtu.be/DTElRyYaZ2s and here’s the text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Outsider :D SS
Scurvy Swab 
THX 0477