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It is a very attractive compromise, as in the description of his lodging in St. Louis Street, an old Creole house. 8 Sometimes he is not ashamed to forget his friend and imagine a public, which he harangues about " that religion of the s B. I. 173. 41 LAFCADIO HEARN wilderness which flies to solitude, and hath no other temple than the vault of Heaven itself, painted with the frescoes of the clouds, and illuminated by the trembling tapers of God s everlasting altar, the stars of the firmament, "... 9 or he concludes with : " So I draw my chair closer to the fire, light up my pipe de terre Gambiere, and in the flickering glow weave fancies of palm trees and ghostly reefs and tepid winds, and a Voice from the far tropics calls to me across the darkness. " 10 He wrote on musical instruments, on luxury and art in the time of Elegabalus ; he held it to be his " artistic duty " to let himself be " absorbed into the life " of the Latin city, to " study its form and colour and passion. " There were, he said in 1882, months when he could not write ; when he could it was to " write a rough sketch and labour it over and over again for half a year, at intervals of ten minutes leisure sometimes I get a day or two.
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