beautiful and cold, dead yet secretly full of fabulous life force.
And around him this still emptiness, this infinite ethereal space, this lonely death!
“Now he has quite retired into himself,” I felt with a shudder.
Never had I been so isolated. I had no part in him, he was unattainable,
he was further from me than if he had been on the most distant isle in the world.
I scarcely understood why no one besides myself noticed it.
I thought that everyone would have to remark him, that everyone would shudder.
But no one gave him any attention. He sat like a picture and, as I could not prevent myself from thinking, as stiff as a strange idol.
A fly settled on his forehead, moved slowly down over his nose and lips—not a muscle, not a nerve in his face twitched.
Where, where was he now? What was he thinking, what was he feeling?
Was he in heaven or in hell? It was impossible for me to question him.
When I saw him at the end of the lesson living and breathing again, when his glance met mine, was he as he formerly had been?
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