MY APISH COUSINS
winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras, supreme intheir abnormality; the elephants with their fog-colored skinand strictly practical appendageswere there, the small cats and the parrakeet—trivial and humdrum on examination, destroyingbark and portions of the food it could not eat.I recall their magnificence, now not more magnificentthan it is dim. It is difficult to recall the ornament,speech, and precise manner of what one mightcall the minor acquaintances twentyyears back; but I shall never forget—that Gilgamesh amongthe hairy carnivora—that cat with thewedge-shaped, slate-gray marks on its forelegs and the resolute tail,astringently remarking: “They have imposed on us with their pale,half fledged protestations, trembling aboutin inarticulate frenzy, sayingit is not for all of us to understand art, finding itall so difficult, examining the thingas if it were something inconceivably arcanic, assymmetrically frigid as something carved out of chrysoprasor marble—strict with tension, malignantin its power over us and deeperthan the sea when it proffers flattery in exchange for hemp,rye, flax, horses, platinum, timber and fur.”
winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras, supreme intheir abnormality; the elephants with their fog-colored skinand strictly practical appendageswere there, the small cats and the parrakeet—trivial and humdrum on examination, destroyingbark and portions of the food it could not eat.I recall their magnificence, now not more magnificentthan it is dim. It is difficult to recall the ornament,speech, and precise manner of what one mightcall the minor acquaintances twentyyears back; but I shall never forget—that Gilgamesh amongthe hairy carnivora—that cat with thewedge-shaped, slate-gray marks on its forelegs and the resolute tail,astringently remarking: “They have imposed on us with their pale,half fledged protestations, trembling aboutin inarticulate frenzy, sayingit is not for all of us to understand art, finding itall so difficult, examining the thingas if it were something inconceivably arcanic, assymmetrically frigid as something carved out of chrysoprasor marble—strict with tension, malignantin its power over us and deeperthan the sea when it proffers flattery in exchange for hemp,rye, flax, horses, platinum, timber and fur.”
winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras, supreme intheir abnormality; the elephants with their fog-colored skinand strictly practical appendageswere there, the small cats and the parrakeet—trivial and humdrum on examination, destroyingbark and portions of the food it could not eat.
I recall their magnificence, now not more magnificentthan it is dim. It is difficult to recall the ornament,speech, and precise manner of what one mightcall the minor acquaintances twentyyears back; but I shall never forget—that Gilgamesh amongthe hairy carnivora—that cat with the
wedge-shaped, slate-gray marks on its forelegs and the resolute tail,astringently remarking: “They have imposed on us with their pale,half fledged protestations, trembling aboutin inarticulate frenzy, sayingit is not for all of us to understand art, finding itall so difficult, examining the thing
as if it were something inconceivably arcanic, assymmetrically frigid as something carved out of chrysoprasor marble—strict with tension, malignantin its power over us and deeperthan the sea when it proffers flattery in exchange for hemp,rye, flax, horses, platinum, timber and fur.”