[Solar-coop] {Spam?} ching the dry trees, and the yellowed lawns

Lun Ene 11 17:31:03 CET 2010

, out of dark glasses, wines from Limagne, Roussillon, Tenedos, Val de
Penas and Porto, and after the coffee and walnut brandy had partaken of
kvas and porter and stout. The farewell dinner to a temporarily dead
virility--this was what he had written on invitation cards designed like
bereavement notices. But he was done with those extravagances in which
he had once gloried. Today, he was filled with a contempt for those
juvenile displays, the singular apparel, the appointments of his bizarre
chambers. He contented himself with planning, for his own pleasure, and
no longer for the astonishment of others, an interior that should be
comfortable although embellished in a rare style; with building a
curious, calm retreat to serve the needs of his future solitude. When
the Fontenay house was in readiness, fitted up by an architect according
to his plans, when all that remained was to determine the color scheme,
he again devoted himself to long speculations. He desired colors whose
expressiveness would be displayed in the artificial light of lamps. To
him it mattered not at all if they were lifeless or crude in daylight,
for it was at night that he lived, feeling more completely alone then,
feeling that only under the protective covering of darkness did the mind
grow really animated and active. He also experienced a peculiar pleasure
in being in a richly illuminated room, the only patch of light amid the
shadow-haunted, sleeping houses. This was a form of enjoyment in which
perhaps entered an element of vanity, that peculiar pleasure known to
late workers when, drawing aside the window curtains, they perceive that
everything about them is extinguished, silent, dead. Slowly, one by one,
he selected the colors. Blue inclines to a false gre
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