Julius le Vallon: An Episode
Algernon Blackwood
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(Forgotten Books, June 28, 2012)
Julius Le Vallon CHAPTER IS urely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as pari of the continually recurring rhythm of progress as inevitable, as natural, and as benevolent as sleep. Some Dogmas of Religion (P rof. J. MT aggart). IT was one autumn in the late nineties that I found myself at Bale, awaiting letters. I was returning leisurely from the Dolomites, where a climbing holiday had combined pleasantly with an examination of the geologically interesting Monzoni Valley. When the claims of the latter were exhausted, however, and I turned my eyes towards the peaks, it happened that bad weather held permanent possession of the great grey cliffs and towering pinnacles, and climbing was out of the question altogether. A world of savage desolation gloomed down upon me through impenetrable mists; the scouts of winters advance had established themselves upon all possible points of attack; and the whole tossed wilderness of precipice and scree lay safe, from my assaults at least, behind a frontier of furious autumn storms. Having ample time before my winters work in London, I turned my back upon the unconquered Marmolata and Gimon della Pala, and made my way slowly, via Bozen and I nnsbruck, to Bale ;and it was in the latter place, where my English correspondence was kind enough to overtake me, that I found one letter in particular that interested me more than all the others put together.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accura