At the time when Nature with a lusty spirit
Was conceiving monstrous children each day,
I should have liked to live near a young giantess,
Like a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen.
I should have liked to see her soul and body thrive
And grow without restraint in her terrible games;
To divine by the mist swimming within her eyes
If her heart harbored a smoldering flame;
To explore leisurely her magnificent form;
To crawl upon the slopes of her enormous knees,
And sometimes in summer, when the unhealthy sun
Makes her stretch out, weary, across the countryside,
To sleep nonchalantly in the shade of her breasts,
Like a peaceful hamlet below a mountainside. (source)translated from Baudelaire by William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
There is nothing left on Earth, human, animal or vegetable. But elsewhere? Beyond?
If you think the riddle is cleared up, are you sure you understood everything?
In Quebec, the old-time lumberjacks transformed their canoes into magical planes
Nothing exists of all this fabulous mess, nothing at all, zero, not a single atom.
When the wolf Fenrir shook the world's axis Yggdrasil, the cosmic order ended
All over the world there are strangely shaped rocks that evoke animals. Natural or not?