...soft mood on that night, when the moon swam in a cloudless sky over the begrimed shadows of the town. clear voice, which had been growing feeble of late....proudly upright posture. After the funeral, Heyst sat alone,vin the dusk, and his meditation took the form of a definite vision of the stream, of the fatuously...

...fish of them all," Heyst said to himself. He suffered. He was hurt by the sight of his own life, vhich ought to have been a masterpiece of aloofness. He...stream, of the fatuously jostling, nodding, spinning figtires hurried irresistibly along, and giving no sign of being aware that the voice on the bank had...

...difficult — always remembering that you, too, if you are anything, are as pitiful as th*> •est, yet never expecting any pity for yourself." "What...After the funeral, Heyst sat alone, in the dusk, and uis meditation took the form of a definite vision of the stream, of the fatuously jostling, nodding,...

...generations.' Men and women are the least substantial part of the general nightmare: Heyst sees them as 'figures cut out of cork, and weighted with lead just...sufficiently to keep them in their proudly upright posture.' But, through a temperamental accident which contradicts his deliberate choice, he commits himself to...

.... Look on—make no sound." In pursuance of which formula, Axel Heyst lives most of his days seeing men and women "go by thick as dust, revolving and...sufficiently to keep them in their proudly upright posture." Action good or evil, action from indifference or from solicitude, he regards as "the barbed hook, baited...

...silenced destroyer of systems, of hopes, of beliefs. He observed that the death of that bitter contcmner of life did not trouble the flow of life's stream,...sufficiently to keep them in their proudly upright posture. insignificant and some grossly abusive. The son had read them all with mournful detachment. "This is...