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...last I came under a huge archway and beheld the Grand Lunar exalted on his throne in a blaze of incandescent blue . . . The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly within . . . Tiers of attendants were busy spraying that great brain with a cooling spray, and patting and sustaining...
...little fuss about difficulties. And only occasionally does the beauty of the wilderness tempt them into the kind of lyricism that surged up in Meriwether Lewis on June 8, 1805: "[The Marias River] passes through a rich fertile and one of the most beautifully picturesque countries that I ever beheld, through the wide expanse of which, innumerable herds of living anamals are seen, it's borders garnished with one continued garden of roses, while it's lofty and open forrests are the habitation of miriads of the feathered tribes who salute the ear of the passing traveler with...
...first wife's death he rarely drank). But by now he had made himself almost oblivious of the outside world ("I rarely know who's President," he said). One who saw him trudging through the snow "like Hamlet in a greatcoat" said: "I have never yet beheld a sadder [face...
Tutiation ceremonies will probably beheld some time in April...
...seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process is involved...