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“A Familiar Cave”
“One night she took refuge from the cold wind inside a cave. The moment that she stepped inside, a sense of recurrence overwhelmed her. She knew, without even looking, how deep the cavern was, which side of it had the smoother wall, and where its floor was flattest. So strong was her emotion that she […]
Continue reading“The Cajuns”
“Never in her life had Lucinda experienced anything like this household full of exhilarated Cajuns. She, who had spent most of her time in quiet seclusion, now found herself surrounded by the most lively and gregarious of people. Music pulsed through the house like an incessant heartbeat. Men played guitars; women sang; folks played the […]
Continue reading“Old Friends”
“After a steep climb, Lucinda arrived at a small meadow. Straight before her grazed a herd of ten bharals, horned mountain sheep with bluish-gray coats. The sheep looked up at her and then slowly made their way over to where she stood. The leader of the herd knelt down only a few feet away from […]
Continue reading“Inner Light”
“Then her awareness-space flamed bright. As though a bank of brilliant lamps had suddenly been switched on, she saw, with her inner vision, Light. The Light seemed lively, alive, dancing, swirling, buoying, and scending in great waves. It lifted her up and spun her around. It sent shivers of delight up her spine and caused […]
Continue reading“The Tree”
The tree was partially hidden there, between two plain, square buildings, its branches reaching out toward the street as though making a whispered plea for beauty, a caressing moan of soft-bloomed tenderness in a world of hard concrete. The blooms resembled clusters of snow recently fallen on the limbs, or feathery feelers from some velvet […]
Continue reading“The Artistic Laboratory”
“My laboratory was also that of an alchemist, and from my stored treasures I sought, as he once had, the materia prima, whose discovery would bring the Great Light to my being. My alchemist worked with the physical elements of my body and the ideational vapors of my mind. In his retorts and alembics could […]
Continue reading“Newborn World”
“The world outside seemed to have been bathed and cleansed just as she had. It might have been the world Adam and Eve saw, this paradise of delight and all potential. It was no longer a gathering of objects spread before her view, but a pulsing of Existence, a breathing of Being that she gazed […]
Continue reading“Daphnis and Chloé”
“After a few minutes, Ravel’s ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ sounded from the red-nosed Magnavox stereo. This music enthralled her. In it she heard the world awakening from its dark-night slumbers. The composer had somehow managed to eavesdrop on nature herself, so that he could audibly portray her first twinklings of dawning awareness, the hypnopompic images that […]
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