s ention or volition, a vie of C seemed to open one upon anoto o an inner, secret place in ion perpetually receded before , devastating, vertiginous intimation of infinity.

    She howled.

    And  on il, from tain, first singly, t last voices in tinued to ragic resonance. Soon it s of to deny to t the village in a pack.

    t railed in t t notion s or t it ers fat it op rung of to come down for he girl jumped up, snarling and showing her long yellow canines.

    tside ated dismay of tic beasts. All t  the door.

    took  t budge but ug and so  let t of  up beo turn time back, so t  ing a side jumped up at it and t  of t to tarted to give. t t, and began to make excited little sallies back and fort of tore out of te soon. tumbled over one anoto get inside.

    Dissonance. terror. t of all ter trapped in a box. t side,   to  as if t snatcoo; but ty o collect terling.

    t beous stence tracks of flour everyinguistered on the floor.

    Peter t t s into excited speec for te old raug  midniger-in-la to ter to scrub t of ters fatable and toget of t; t taken so muc snatched even a single egg.

    People brougo tarligatoes, and snacks, because tement  terrible nigy but t or drink not to bed as soon as her house was clean.

    Next day, s to t for a  s pray. tarted c o leave off because ten ering.

    t er, during ter er asked t to teaco read t gladly complied; Peter  of erest in learning to read.

    t artled and impressed. teased ;Saint Peterquot; but t did not stop o co pray , ed to t o tal infection t aken  of it. onement. Eac, , looking for a clue to grace, until o sleep.

    But, as if to spite ts ly invoked to protect mare regularly disordered ossed and turned on tling stra tle ones.

    Deligers precocious intelligence, t started to teacin. Peter visited t as ies ted. een, t told s t Peter so too become a priest o God, since ranger to ter ts came doure for ter, Peter set off. It ober.

    At t days travel,  ran from tain into ts o te ion t aed roubled for reasons  explain to himself.

    In t lig t no more t doo to drink and to ill hing living.

    you could  ures. Ser so full of mauve lig it looked as if s as it appeared yet all t ude and silence; all still.

    S tion beneat of  kno kind of consciousness t as  innocence or display,  of our first parents, before t repentance  hin her comprehension.

    Language crumbled into dust under t of  of t pay them any heed.

    to tremble and s  melt. hing, or sobbed.

    S t, too, left off tumbling and ran to burro ser a moment, to ter t took  out around her head.

    pelt. ttle cubs fastened ts.

    Peter could not ,  out crying.  cried since ears rolled doo tending to cross over to to join e grace, impelled by t visionary ecstasy. But ook frig t, s a as if t o run too t maze of ted dawn.

    ears on ook off s and dried  and legs on tail of . te somet, and continued on to to o be afraid of.

    igo of freedom.

    s slung over  burden. ed  to t,  till damp.

    tional sun surprised ion and tain noain began to acquire a flat, t urning into a picture of itself, into tcard ily boug a railation or a border post, tting, t range torange cities, otries , at t, imagine,  kno;t was w my c;

    urned and stared at tain for a long time.  for fourteen years but  before as it migo someone  as almost a part of t time, ive, vast, magnificent, barren, unkind, simplicity of tain. As o it,  turn into so muco try tale, tale of a child suckled by wolves, perhaps, or of wolves nursed by a woman.

    terminedly set ooramped ono a different story.

    quot;If I look back again,quot;   gasp of superstitious terror, quot;I surn into a pillar of salt.quot;