At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night, when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out, I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once, one Christmas Eve, I saw a great naked women, standing erect, with rolling eyes; she must have been a hundred feet high, but along she drifted, growing ever longer and ever thinner, and finally fell apart, each limb remaining separate, with the head floating away first as the rest of her body continued to waver

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About Gustave Flaubert, November

Gustave Flaubert, November.

Themes

  • Dreams — Aspirations, visions, and the world of the subconscious
  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back
  • Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it

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