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Gautier, Theophile - The Opium pipe
Identifier
010497
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Theophile Gautier – The Opium Pipe
At length we came to a town unfamiliar to me, with houses in a peculiar style which, as I glimpsed them through the shadows, seemed incredibly small to be inhabited; the carriage though far broader than the roads it was traversing was not held up as the houses withdrew right and left, like scared pedestrians, and made way for it.
After the carriage had changed direction several times, I felt it melt beneath me, the horses vanished into smoke and I had arrived.