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daisies rejoiced in fields beyond the churches, almighty peaces settled in the clover–up rose the huge monstrosities that have left our Spring! Our Spring is free to fallow and grow wild in its own green juices.

Off–up—up the bird rises farther, diminishes into the original Giant Bird Cloud, up into the sky I look and I look and can’t believe the feathers, can’t believe it, can’t believe the Snake– The sailing objects in that distant Up are peaceful and very far–they are leaving the earth–and going into the ethereal blue–aerial heavens wait for them —they specken and grow dotty–calm as iron, they seem to have an air of funniness the smaller they get– The sky is too bright, the sun is too mad, the eye can’t follow the grand ecstatic flight of Bird and Serpent into the Unknown–

And I tell you I looked as long as I could and it was gone–absolutely gone.

And Doctor Sax, standing there with his hands in his pockets, his mouth dropped open, uptilted his searching profile into the enigmatic sky–made a fool of–

“I’ll be damned,” he said with amazement. “The Universe disposes of its own evil!”

That bloody worm was ousted from his hole, the neck of the world was free–

The Wizard was dissatisfied, but the neck of the world was free–

I have seen Doctor Sax several times since, at dusk, in autumn, when the kids jump up and down and scream —he only deals in glee now.

I went along home by the ding dong bells and daisies, I put a rose in my hair. I passed the Grotto again and saw the cross on top of that hump of rocks, saw some old French Canadian ladies praying step by step on their knees. I found another rose, and put another rose in my hair, and went home.

By God.

Written in Mexico City,

Tenochtitlan, 1952

Ancient Capital

of Azteca

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Part 1 BOOK ONE Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night

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part 2 BOOK TWO A Gloomy Bookmovie

part 3 BOOK THREE More Ghosts

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part 4 BOOK FOUR The Night the Man with the Watermelon Died

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part 5 BOOK FIVE The Flood

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part 6 BOOK SIX The Castle

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