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further back; and I was trying to find the root of a manifestation,

the spiritual truth whence a ; or to combine

two propositions, both apparently true, either at once or in different

remembered moods, and to find the point in which their invisibly

converging lines would unite in one, revealing a truth higher than

either and differing fro opposed to

either, that it was that whence each derived its life and power Or if

the book was one of travels, I found myself the traveller New

lands, fresh experiences, novel custoht, I suffered, I rejoiced in my success Was it a

history? I was the chief actor therein I suffered lad in my own praise With a fiction it was the same Mine was the

whole story For I took the place of the character as roeary with the life of

years condensed in an hour, or arrived at my deathbed, or the end of the

volume, I would awake, with a sudden bewilder the walls and roof aroundI joyed or sorrowed only in a book If the book was a poem, the

words disappeared, or took the subordinate position of an accoes that rose and vanished with a

soundless rhythm, and a hidden rime