walked home through the deserted lanes of the village; the moon, full and red, like a fire’s glow, began to show itself behind the jagged line of buildings; the stars shone calmly in the dark blue vault, and I was amused to recall that there were once very wise men who thought that the heavenly bodies played a part in our trivial disputes over a scrap of land or invented rights. And now? These lamps, lit, according to them, for the sole purpose of illuminating their battles and festivals, burn with the same gleam, but their passions and hopes were extinguished long ago, along with them, like a
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