Book 2 The Philosophers Journey : BOOK 2--THE PHILOSOPHERS JOURNEY CHAPTER X WHEN the children reached home they told the Philosopher the result of their visit. He questioned them minutely as to the appearance of Pan, how he had received them, and what he had said in defence of his iniquities; but when he found that Pan had not...
Book 3 The Two Gods : BOOK 3--THE TWO GODS CHAPTER XII CAITILIN NI MURRACHU was sitting alone in the little cave behind Gort na Cloca Mora. Her companion had gone out as was his custom to walk in the sunny morning and to sound his pipe in desolate, green spaces whence, perhaps, the wanderer of his desire might hear...
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Book 6 The Thin Woman's Journey : BOOK 6--THE THIN WOMAN'S JOURNEY CHAPTER XVII THE ability of the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath for anger was unbounded. She was not one of those limited creatures who are swept clean by a gust of wrath and left placid and smiling after its passing. She could store her anger in those caverns...
Book 1 The Coming Of Pan : BOOK 1--THE COMING OF PAN CHAPTER I IN the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny into which the nuts of knowledge fall from the hazel bush on its...
Book 5 The Policemen : BOOK 5--THE POLICEMEN CHAPTER XIV SOME distance down the road the policemen halted. The night had fallen before they effected their capture, and now, in the gathering darkness, they were not at ease. In the first place, they knew that the occupation upon which they were employed was not...
Book 4 The Philosophers Return : BOOK 4--THE PHILOSOPHERS RETURN CHAPTER XIII WHICH is, the Earth or the creatures that move upon it, the more important? This is a question prompted solely by intellectual arrogance, for in life there is no greater and no less. The thing that is has justified its own importance by mere existence...
