-
Главная
-
- Книги
-
- Авторы
-
- Джеймс Джойс
-
- Улисс
-
- Стр. 774/821
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Meditations
of
evolution
increasingly
vaster
:
of
the
moon
invisible
in
incipient
lunation
,
approaching
perigee
:
of
the
infinite
lattiginous
scintillating
uncondensed
milky
way
,
discernible
by
daylight
by
an
observer
placed
at
the
lower
end
of
a
cylindrical
vertical
shaft
5000
ft
deep
sunk
from
the
surface
towards
the
centre
of
the
earth
:
of
Sirius
(
alpha
in
Canis
Maior
)
10
lightyears
(
57
,
000
,
000
,
000
,
000
miles
)
distant
and
in
volume
900
times
the
dimension
of
our
planet
:
of
Arcturus
:
of
the
precession
of
equinoxes
:
of
Orion
with
belt
and
sextuple
sun
theta
and
nebula
in
which
100
of
our
solar
systems
could
be
contained
:
of
moribund
and
of
nascent
new
stars
such
as
Nova
in
1901
:
of
our
system
plunging
towards
the
constellation
of
Hercules
:
of
the
parallax
or
parallactic
drift
of
socalled
fixed
stars
,
in
reality
evermoving
wanderers
from
immeasurably
remote
eons
to
infinitely
remote
futures
in
comparison
with
which
the
years
,
threescore
and
ten
,
of
allotted
human
life
formed
a
parenthesis
of
infinitesimal
brevity
.
Were
there
obverse
meditations
of
involution
increasingly
less
vast
?
Of
the
eons
of
geological
periods
recorded
in
the
stratifications
of
the
earth
:
of
the
myriad
minute
entomological
organic
existences
concealed
in
cavities
of
the
earth
,
beneath
removable
stones
,
in
hives
and
mounds
,
of
microbes
,
germs
,
bacteria
,
bacilli
,
spermatozoa
:
of
the
incalculable
trillions
of
billions
of
millions
of
imperceptible
molecules
contained
by
cohesion
of
molecular
affinity
in
a
single
pinhead
:
of
the
universe
of
human
serum
constellated
with
red
and
white
bodies
,
themselves
universes
of
void
space
constellated
with
other
bodies
,
each
,
in
continuity
,
its
universe
of
divisible
component
bodies
of
which
each
was
again
divisible
in
divisions
of
redivisible
component
bodies
,
dividends
and
divisors
ever
diminishing
without
actual
division
till
,
if
the
progress
were
carried
far
enough
,
nought
nowhere
was
never
reached
.
Why
did
he
not
elaborate
these
calculations
to
a
more
precise
result
?
Because
some
years
previously
in
1886
when
occupied
with
the
problem
of
the
quadrature
of
the
circle
he
had
learned
of
the
existence
of
a
number
computed
to
a
relative
degree
of
accuracy
to
be
of
such
magnitude
and
of
so
many
places
,
e
.
g
.
,
the
9th
power
of
the
9th
power
of
9
,
that
,
the
result
having
been
obtained
,
33
closely
printed
volumes
of
1000
pages
each
of
innumerable
quires
and
reams
of
India
paper
would
have
to
be
requisitioned
in
order
to
contain
the
complete
tale
of
its
printed
integers
of
units
,
tens
,
hundreds
,
thousands
,
tens
of
thousands
,
hundreds
of
thousands
,
millions
,
tens
of
millions
,
hundreds
of
millions
,
billions
,
the
nucleus
of
the
nebula
of
every
digit
of
every
series
containing
succinctly
the
potentiality
of
being
raised
to
the
utmost
kinetic
elaboration
of
any
power
of
any
of
its
powers
.
Did
he
find
the
problems
of
the
inhabitability
of
the
planets
and
their
satellites
by
a
race
,
given
in
species
,
and
of
the
possible
social
and
moral
redemption
of
said
race
by
a
redeemer
,
easier
of
solution
?
Of
a
different
order
of
difficulty
.
Conscious
that
the
human
organism
,
normally
capable
of
sustaining
an
atmospheric
pressure
of
19
tons
,
when
elevated
to
a
considerable
altitude
in
the
terrestrial
atmosphere
suffered
with
arithmetical
progression
of
intensity
,
according
as
the
line
of
demarcation
between
troposphere
and
stratosphere
was
approximated
from
nasal
hemorrhage
,
impeded
respiration
and
vertigo
,
when
proposing
this
problem
for
solution
,
he
had
conjectured
as
a
working
hypothesis
which
could
not
be
proved
impossible
that
a
more
adaptable
and
differently
anatomically
constructed
race
of
beings
might
subsist
otherwise
under
Martian
,
Mercurial
,
Veneral
,
Jovian
,
Saturnian
,
Neptunian
or
Uranian
sufficient
and
equivalent
conditions
,
though
an
apogean
humanity
of
beings
created
in
varying
forms
with
finite
differences
resulting
similar
to
the
whole
and
to
one
another
would
probably
there
as
here
remain
inalterably
and
inalienably
attached
to
vanities
,
to
vanities
of
vanities
and
to
all
that
is
vanity
.
And
the
problem
of
possible
redemption
?
