Friday, September 28, 2018

Divine night!

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"The moon shines in the midst of the sky; the immeasurable vault of heaven seems to have expanded to infinity; the earth is bathed in silver light; the air is warm, voluptuous, and redolent of innumerable sweet scents. Divine night!"

Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman - Part II: The Village Madman (trans. Claud Field)

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