19/23 For the first time he understands the motionless lubricity of trees. He discovers priapi in the branches. Here between two limbs another branch is jammed, in a stationary fornication which is reproduced in diminished scale from bough to twig to the top of the tree. There it seems the trunk is a phallus which mounts and disappears into a skirt of leaves or which, on the contrary, issues from a green clout and plunges into the glossy belly of the earth. He sees the skin of little boys, the lucid white skin, vellum-like, in the pale, smooth bark of the slender beeches. |