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Gissing, George - from Born in Exile
Identifier
021636
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
GEORGE GISSING. From Born in Exile (London, 1892), Vol. III PART VI, ch. iii
….. a curious experience befell me, - one I had long, long ago, in the Whitelaw days. Sitting down before some interesting strata, I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance.
Awaking for a minute, I tried to realise the passion which not long ago rent and racked me, but I was flatly incapable of understanding it.