Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II.

by Jean Paul

Transcriber's Note:
1. Page scan source: Making of America http://www.archive.org/details/hesperusorforty01paulgoog
2. [Greek: gelotophuê] represents the transliteration of the Greek text.

HESPERUS

OR

Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days

A BIOGRAPHY

FROM THE GERMAN OF

JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER

TRANSLATED BY

CHARLES T. BROOKS

"The Earth is the cul-de-sac in the great city of God,—the camera obscura full of inverted and contracted images from a fairer world,—the coast of God's creation,—a vaporous halo around a better sun,—the numerator to a still invisible denominator,—in fact, it is almost nothing at all."