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Chapter 9

leaves falling, all, bare, frighted of the narrow grave and unforgiven.

―Yes. So you think⁠ ⁠…

The door closed behind the outgoer.

Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell, rest of warm and brooding air.

A vestal’s lamp.

Here he ponders things that were not:

  • what Cæsar would have lived to do had he believed the soothsayer:
  • what might have been:
  • possibilities of the possible as possible:
  • things not known:
  • what name Achilles bore when he lived among women.

Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest. In painted chambers loaded with

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