The Demi-gods

entirely coincided with his. They had no property and so they had no prejudices, for the person who has nothi

in in sheer desperation of any advance, but from the great Ethic of Possession there never has been any escape, and there n

that which we behold is frightful; if we look with love then the colours of heaven are repeated to us from the ditch and the dungeon. We invent eter

ction supplemented each other on their journeys, so each of them began to unfold from the fleshy disguise, and in a short time they coul

g no sound but the magnified, slow trickle of water and the breeze that sung or screamed against a razor edge of rock; or lying on the sheltered side of a pit of potatoes, they stared at the moon as she sailed on her lonely voyages, or watched the s

e a new language must be invented, and they also had to unshape their definitions and re-translate these secular findings into terms wherein they could see the subject broadly, and they found that what they gained in breadth they lost in outline, and that the last generalisation, however logically it was framed, was se

hills of cabbages or piles of farming tools; or they slid into the sheds among the cattle where they warmed and fed themselves against those peaceful

so profound that he no longer seemed to feel the rain or the wind. From these abysses of thought he would emerge to the realisat

d in quiet splendour; for him too the signs are set. Does the Waterman care nothing for his thirst? Does the Ram not

ng roads, for with these people they had nothing to do, they had scarcely anything to say, and the housefolk looked on the strollers with a suspicion whic

have said that there was no difference between these folk and the trees that shaded their dwellings in leafy spray, that they were rooted in their houses, and that they ha

te other people

ravelling the world carrying saplings and rushes from the stream which they wove cunningly into tables and chairs warranted not to last too long; the folk who sold rootless ferns to people from whose window-ledges they had previously stolen the pots to plant

d with and were friendly with, and to the angels these peopl