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deirdregurl · 06-11-2004, 03:58 AM

"It was the bottomless pit parodied upon the spot by chaos come again. The mass with the atom; the side was all thrown down and the broken dish; a menacing fraternization of all rubbish. Sisyphus had cast in his rock and Job his potsherd. Upon the whole, terrible. It was the acropolis of the ragamuffins. Carts overturned roughened the slope; an immense dray was displayed there, crosswise, the axle pointing to the sky, and seemed a scar upon the tumultuous facade; an omnibus, cheerily hoisted by main strength to the very top of the pile, as if the architects of that savagery would add sauciness to terror, presented its unharnessed pole to unknown horses of the air. "

(Hugo 1014-1015)

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06-11-2004, 03:58 AM	#11
deirdregurl monkey Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: davao,phils Posts: 47	"It was the bottomless pit parodied upon the spot by chaos come again. The mass with the atom; the side was all thrown down and the broken dish; a menacing fraternization of all rubbish. Sisyphus had cast in his rock and Job his potsherd. Upon the whole, terrible. It was the acropolis of the ragamuffins. Carts overturned roughened the slope; an immense dray was displayed there, crosswise, the axle pointing to the sky, and seemed a scar upon the tumultuous facade; an omnibus, cheerily hoisted by main strength to the very top of the pile, as if the architects of that savagery would add sauciness to terror, presented its unharnessed pole to unknown horses of the air. " (Hugo 1014-1015)