Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1936 deccal paged edition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> THE ODYSSEY trated unreservedly into its outer husk till the little seed felt itself soaked. None the less it kept its vital force intact and neither split nor sprouted. The life force handed down to it through millions of genera- tions was too vigorous and too well-prepared for its special future whether near or distant to break up in the tiny frame. Only this time inertia was not its sole defence against the assailing elements: it found in itself a happy elasticity which helped to keep out surplus liquid. Thus for the whole rainy season the seed wandered about the sand-desert going with the waters down an imperceptible slope. On all sides the waves now compassed it with the grey sky coving above it and them in the daytime; but at night it was drowned by water and by darkness. The waters as ever darkened the shadows of these shades circling in space. A chill blind impenetrable horror over- came the pine-seed. It appeared almost like an en- dowed being to hesitate in its career. It struck against stones seemed to cling to the tufts of grass which the waters carried down with them seemed to betray a longing to stop while the waves so in- finitely great withdrew it gently but irresistibly from every obstacle. (LL)