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home one evening and stopped to look along the Neva: It seemed, in the end, that all this world, with all its inhabitants, both the strong and the weak, with all their habitations, whether beggars' shelters or gilded palaces, at this hour of twilight resembled a fantastic, enchanted vision, a dream which in its turn would instantly vanish and waste away as vapor into the dark blue heaven. Suddenly a certain strange thought began to stir inside me. I started and my heart was as if flooded in that

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l'invite à passer huit jours à la campagne. Le remède était hardi, j'en conviens, mais la jeune fille avait une âme romanesque, et le beau jeune homme était un peu plat: elle le méprisa au bout de trois jours. LXVI Bologne, 17 avril 1817. Ave Maria (twilight), en Italie, heure de la tendresse, des plaisirs de l'âme et de la mélancolie: sensation augmentée par le son de ces belles cloches. Heures des plaisirs, qui ne tiennent aux sens que par les souvenirs. 218 À l'Ave Maria. 548 DE L'AMOUR

directement chez moi, mais j’ai compris qu’il était hors de question d’aller au lit et j’ai passé deux heures devant la télévision à regarder un film sur Marco Polo. Je me suis finalement écroulé vers les quatre heures, au milieu d’une rediffusion de Twilight Zone. Mon premier geste a été de pressentir Stuart Green, lecteur dans une des plus grandes maisons d’éditions. Je ne le connaissais pas très bien mais nous avions grandi dans la même ville et Roger, son frère cadet, avait été à l’école avec

to Culture, if they are to have it at all. There is also "the news," journalism, entertainment, scientific and artistic exploration, messages from God, and the "dropout" world of people who want to live an inversion of Culture, as well as its many twilight zones. All of these have their "magic," all of them precipitate Culture — if only as the background of their hopes — and all of them are subject to much the same operating conditions. Even the government must get into the act. Advertising is merely

things), it was only natural that he should make a move on her once I exited the scene. The merry widower and the gay divorcée. Well, good for both of them. Jay was pushing seventy, of course, but who was I to object to a tango dinner or two and some twilight nooky? To be perfectly frank, I wouldn't have minded a dose of that for myself. "Hi there, Edith," I said when she answered the phone. "It's the ghost of Christmas past." "Nathan?" She sounded surprised to hear from me—and also a little disgusted

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brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John and Georgiana were now clustered round

heart with brighter, with spiritual views. 30 Jesus' sad repast The Passover, which Jesus ate with his disciples in the month Nisan on the night before his crucifixion, was a mournful occasion, a sad supper taken at the close of day, in the twilight of a glorious career with shadows fast falling around; and PAGE 33 1 this supper closed forever Jesus' ritualism or concessions to matter. 3 6 9 12 Heavenly supplies His followers, sorrowful and silent, anticipating the hour

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