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L'Apres-Midi D'un CarmagnoleAuthor(s): Larry GraySource: Notre Dame English Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1969/1970), p. 46Published by: The University of Notre DameStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40066355 .

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LfAPRES-MIDI D'UN CARMAGNOLE

46 LARRY GRAY

The city lay dull and heavy under an ashen phlegm speckled with blood. Beneath crawled many legged vermin a crowd moving its massive loins in a rhythm of sluggish insistency phlegmatic writhing forming a star its radii pointing irregularly outward inward converging on the virgin beast the apotheosis of civilization, the naked mademoiselle leering unconcerned offering herself freely to all severing heads deliciously her hymen taut across the city like a dome.

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