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A Crystal Age

by Hudson William Henry

Literature & Fiction » Contemporary

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Story about truth and lie, false and natural, love and affection… The author in his wonderful, thoughtful manner tells us that affection is not enough, that love should burn in your life like a fire… without it the only way out is plunging into darkness and death…
Smith fell in love with a young woman, but then realized that she would never love him the way he wanted to and wished he would never discovered that fact… through his words and emotions the author expresses to us his point of view – that it’s better to always strive for impossible, dream, hope… than find out the horrible truth that leaves only emptiness inside…

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...stonysummit of a hill. On coming in I had the impression of an empty, silent place; yet theinmates of the house were all there; they were sitting and reclining onlow couches, some lying at their ease on straw mats on the floor; somewere reading, others were occupied with some work in their hands, andsome were conversing, the sound coming to me like a faint murmur from adistance. At one side, somewhere about the center of the room, there was a broadraised place, or dais, with a couch on it, on which the father wasreclining at his ease. Beside the couch stood a lectern on which a largevolume rested, and before him there was a brass box or cabinet, andbehind the couch seven polished brass globes were ranged, suspended onaxles resting on bronze frames. These globes varied in size, the largestbeing not less than about twelve feet in circumference. I noticed that there were books on a low stand near me. They were allfolios, very much alike in form and thickness; and seeing presently thatthe...