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CHAPTER XIV
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I am extraordinarily calm; I am drunk with tranquillity.

Are they dead, all--those?
I do not know.

The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.
Something warm is licking my hand.

The black mass which overhangs me is trembling.

It is a foundered horse, whose great body is emptying itself, whose blood is flowing like poor touches of a tongue on to my hand.


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