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Chapter 2
ThatitwasaUtopia,therebeingnoknownmethodfromtheknowntotheunknown:aninfinityrenderableequallyfinitebythesuppositiousappositionofoneormorebodiesequallyofthesameandofdifferentmagnitudes:amobilityofillusoryformsimmobilisedinspace,remobilisedinair:apastwhichpossiblyhadceasedtoexistasapresentbeforeitsprobablespectatorshadenteredactualpresentexistence.
Washemoreconvincedoftheestheticvalueofthespectacle?
Indubitablyinconsequenceofthereiteratedexamplesofpoetsinthedeliriumofthefrenzyofattachmentorintheabasementofrejectioninvokingardentsympatheticconstellationsorthefrigidityofthesatelliteoftheirplanet.
Didhethenacceptasanarticleofbeliefthetheoryofastrologicalinfluencesuponsublunarydisasters?
Itseemedtohimaspossibleofproofasofconfutationandthenomenclatureemployedinitsselenographicalchartsasattributabletoverifiableintuitionastofallaciousanalogy:thelakeofdreams,theseaofrains,thegulfofdews,theoceanoffecundity.