The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Modern Library Classics) by Gustave Flaubert

Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307824134
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Anthony, kneeling before the cross, murmurs prayers. Damis walks around him, with wheedling gestures.

Nay, nay! good hermit, dear Saint Anthony! man so pure, man so illustrious! man who cannot be praised enough! Be not horrified! These are only exaggerated forms of speech, borrowed from the Orientals. That need in no way …

APOLLONIUS

Let him alone, Damis!

He believes, like a brute, in the reality of things. The terror which he entertains of the Gods prevents him from comprehending them; and he debases his own God to the level of a jealous king!

But thou, my son, do not leave me!

He moves to the edge of the cliff, walking backward, passes beyond the verge of the precipice, and remains suspended in air.

Above all forms, further than the ends of the earth, beyond the heavens themselves, lies the world of Idea, replete with the splendor of the Word! With one bound we shall traverse the impending spaces, and thou shalt behold, in all his infinity, the Eternal, the Absolute, the Being! Come! give me thy hand! Let us thither!

Side by side, both rise up through the air, slowly.

Anthony, clinging to the cross, watches them rise.

They disappear.

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