. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER Chimera and the Sphinx. i NTONY finds himself stretched onhis back at the edge of the sky is beginning to growwhite. Is this the brightness of dawn ?or is it the reflection of the rnoon ? He tries to rise, then sinks back, and with chat-tering teeth: I feel fatigued . . as if all my bones werebroken!Why? Ah! it is the Dsvil! I remember; and he even re-peated to me all I had learned from old Didymusconcerning the opinions of Xenophanes, of Heraclitus,of Melis
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER Chimera and the Sphinx. i NTONY finds himself stretched onhis back at the edge of the sky is beginning to growwhite. Is this the brightness of dawn ?or is it the reflection of the rnoon ? He tries to rise, then sinks back, and with chat-tering teeth: I feel fatigued . . as if all my bones werebroken!Why? Ah! it is the Dsvil! I remember; and he even re-peated to me all I had learned from old Didymusconcerning the opinions of Xenophanes, of Heraclitus,of Melissus, and of Anaxagoras, as well as concern-ing the Infinite, the creation, and the impossibilityof knowing anything! And I imagined that I could unite myself t©God! Laughing bitterly: Ah! madness! madness! Is it my fault? Prayeris intolerable to me! My heart is drier than a rock!Formerly it overflowed with love! . . (>5) 152 GUST AVE FLAUBERT The sand, in the morning, used to send forthexhalations on the horizon, like the fumes of acenser. At the setting of the sun blossoms of fireburst forth from
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