. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER IXBrest, T THE light-house of Brest. Herethe Old World ends. This is itsmost advanced point; its farthestlimit. Behind you spread Europeand Asia; before you lies the en-tire ocean. As great as space appearsto our eye, does it not always seem limited as soonas we know that it has a boundary? Can you notsee from our shores, across the Channel, the streetsof Brighton and the fortresses of Province; do younot always think of the Mediterranean as an immenseblue lake ensconced in r
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER IXBrest, T THE light-house of Brest. Herethe Old World ends. This is itsmost advanced point; its farthestlimit. Behind you spread Europeand Asia; before you lies the en-tire ocean. As great as space appearsto our eye, does it not always seem limited as soonas we know that it has a boundary? Can you notsee from our shores, across the Channel, the streetsof Brighton and the fortresses of Province; do younot always think of the Mediterranean as an immenseblue lake ensconced in rocks, with promontoriescovered with falling monuments, yellow sands, sway-ing palm-trees and curved bays ? But here nothingstops your eye. Thought can fly as rapidly as thewinds, spread out, divagate, and lose itself, withoutfinding anything but water, or perhaps vague America,nameless islands, or some country with red fruits,humming-birds and savages; or the silent twilight ofthe pole, with its spouting whales; or the great citieslighted by coloured glass, Japan with its porcelainroofs, and China with its
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