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XXX BEAUTIFUL DOROTHY THE sun overwhelms the town with its di- rect and terrible light; the sand dazzles and the sea glitters; the tired world has given up its work and is taking its siesta; a siesta which is a kind of sweet-savoured death, where the sleeper, half awake, tastes the pleasures of his annihilation. Dorothy, however, as strong and as bright as the sun, walks in the deserted street; at this hour she is the sole living being under the mighty vault of blue; she makes a startling black blot upon the light. She moves forward, softly swa…
1928 · PDF PAGE 79
Twilight excites the mad. I remembered that I myself have had two friends that twilight positively afflicted; for the first, he lost under- standing of all the relations of friendship and politeness and ill-treated the first-comer as a savage does. I have seen him throw an excel- lent fowl at the waiters head because he thought he saw in it some insulting hiero- glyphhow should I say what? The evening, forerunner of profoundest pleasures, spoilt the most toothsome things for him. The second, a man of wounded ambition, became, as the day fell,…
1928 · PDF PAGE 84
…ose and of musk in the house, and further, behind our little estate, tall masts swinging on the swell; around us, at the end of the room lighted by a rosy light filtered by blinds, decorated with fresh mats and heady flowers, with seats here and there in Portu- guese rococo style of a heavy dark wood, where she would rest herself, so calm, so well at ease, smoking tobacco slightly flavoured with opium; beyond the compound, the noise of light-intoxicated birds, and the chattering of little negresses, and at night, to accompany my dreams, the pla…
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EPILOGUE In happiness of heart I mount these heights Where I can watch my city hour by hour; Her hells and hospitals and bawdy light, Where every evil opens like a flower. You know, o Satan, lord of my grief unsung, I go not down to weep against your power, But like an old tramp in rotting dung Rather would I get drunk with this great whore Whose rank infernal charm preserves me young. And if in sheets obscure she still must snore, A bleary bitch, or like a young girl go Tripping in veils of evening, gold once more, I love you, o my city, in yo…
1928 · PDF PAGE 57
motionless hour which is not marked on clocks, and yet is light as a sigh, swift as a glance. And if some importunate person where to come and disturb me while my gaze rests on this delicious dial, if some false and intolerant spirit, some demon of unlucky accident, were to come and say to me, What are you looking at with such intensity? What do you seek in the eyes of this being? Do you see there the time? Ah, spend-thrift and do-nothing mortal! I should reply unhesitatingly yes, I see the time; it is eternity. Now, Madam, is not that a re…
1928 · PDF PAGE 166
… ple have such a hatred of vegetation that they pluck up all the trees.Ah! there is a land- scape to your liking; a landscape made with light and mineral, and a liquid mirror to reflect them! My soul replies nothing.
1928 · PDF PAGE 110
…ut whose nature it is impossible to make a mistake, it is maternal love. It is as difficult to suppose a mother without maternal love as light without heat; is it not then per- fectly legitimate to attribute to maternal love all those words and actions which a mother says or does in the matter of her child? And yet, listen to this little story; where I was strangely mystified by the most natural illusion possible.
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… the very waters seem to sleep; how different from human festivals! Here it is an orgy of silence. One might say that an ever-increasing light makes things glitter more and more: that the excited flowers burn with desire to rival the skys blue by the vigour of their colour, and that the heat, making their perfumes visible, sends them up before the altar of the day-star like clouds. Nevertheless, in all this enjoyment I beheld one suffering. At the fool of a colossal Venus, one of those artificial madmen, one of those professional buffoons whos…
1928 · PDF PAGE 155
… the fancy took him to go into the ceme- tery whose grass was so tall and so inviting, and where so rich a sun held sway. In effect, the light and the heat were revel- ling there, and one would have said that the drunken sun was wallowing at all its length upon a carpet of magnificent flowers nourished upon destruction. An immense rustle of life filled the air; the life of things infinitely small, which was interrupted at regular intervals by
1928 · PDF PAGE 135
…in the overflowing of her joy the moon filled all the room like a phosphorescent atmosphere, like a luminous poison, and all this living light was thinking and saying: Thou shalt know eternally the influence of my kiss; thou shalt be beautifully in my fashion. Thou shalt love that which I love and which loves
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…ught that she inspires is of night and the abyss. Her eyes are two caverns where mystery sparkles vaguely, and her glance kin- dles like lightning. It is an explosion in the depths of shadow. I would compare her to a black sun; if one could imagine a black star that shed light and happiness; but she makes one think more readily of the moon, which doubtless has marked her with its fearful influence. Not the white idyllic moon, which resembles a cold bride, but the sinister, intoxicating moon, hung from the height of a stormy night and jostled
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lips seemed like warm caskets of perfume, whence he exhaled a subtle scent, and every time he signed, musk-scented butterflies gat light, on their winged way, from the ardour of his breath. Around his purple tonic was twisted as a belt a gleaming serpent, who, with raised head, turned languorously toward him eyes that were like glowing coals. From this living girdle were suspended alternatively phials full of deadly liquids, shining knives, and surgical instruments. In his right hand he held another phial, filled with a luminous red liquid, and…
1928 · PDF PAGE 107
…ore subtle than his col- leagues, bawl from the pulpit, Dearly beloved brethren let us never forget when we hear boasts of progress and light that the cleverest stratagem of the devil is to persuade us that he does not exist. His recollection of this famous orator natu- rally led us to the subject of Universities, and my strange companion assured me that he did not consider it beneath him in many cases to inspire the pen, the tongue, and the brain of dons, and that he was almost always present in person, although invisible, at all academic ga…
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…, beautiful as fairies or princesses, leaped and skipped under the lanterns whose flame crowds their petti- coats with spangles. All was light, dust, cries, joy, tumult. One set was spending money, an- other making it; both equally happy. The chil- dren clung to their mothers skirts, begging for sugar-sticks, or climbing on to their fathers shoulders so as to get a better view of some juggler who seemed as dazzling as a god, and everywhere, dominating every other scent, was wafted an odour of frying, which was as it were the incense of this h…
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If, nervous as I know you to be, you, G, easy-going and light-hearted as you are, K and J, if you had been harnessed with a certain woman that I knew, you would have either fled or died. I have survived, as you see. Imagine to yourself a person incapable of committing an error of sentiment or of calcula- tion. Imagine to yourselves a devastating se- renity of character, a devotion without comedy and without emphasis, a sweetness without weakness, an energy without violence. The his- tory of my love resembles an interminable voyage upon a…
1928 · PDF PAGE 167
…from life, if it is possible. Let us set up our camp at the Pole! There the sun strikes the earth obliquely, and the slow alternation of light and night suppresses variety and in- creases monotonythat better half of nothing. There we may take prolonged baths of shadow, while, to amuse us, the Aurora Borealis will send us from time to time its rosy sheaves, like the reflection of the fire-works of Hell.
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… eas- ily as people generally say, Ten times running the experiment failed, but at the eleventh it succeeded much too well. Another will light a cigar close to a barrel of gunpowder in order to see, to know, to tempt Fate, to force himself to give proof of his en- ergy; to ape the gamester, to know the pleas- ures of anxiety; and this incited by caprice, by idleness, by nothing at all. This kind of energy springs from boredom and reverie, and those in whom it so obsti- nately appears are in general, as I have said, the most indolent and dreamy …
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…, but not all, you may believe it, belonged to the lowest class or even to the vulgar. I have kept these letters. And then, of a sudden, light broke in my brain; I understood why the mother was so anxious to take away the cord, and by what commerce she proposed to console herself.
1928 · PDF PAGE 106
…mparable flavour and aroma gave both homesickness and craving for joys yet undis- covered to the soul; and, intoxicated with all these delights, I had the audacity to cry, in an access of familiarity which did not seem to dis- please him, as I clutched a brimming cup,To your immortal health, old goat! We talked also of the Universe, of its crea- tion and its future destruction; of the great idea of this centuryI mean Progress and Per- fectibilityand in general of every form of hu- man infatuation. On that subject His Highness was inexhaust…