Saturday, January 28, 2012

unbounded


"... only in unbounded confidence and interchangings of all subtlest secrets, can Love possibly endure."  Pierre (1852)
C.— "Is anything so beautiful as unbounded faith?" 
F.— "Listen! that's 'to horse.'"

C.— "Answer me then!"

F.— "Pshaw!—Of course it's beautiful; or rather sublime."

C.— "It is the very attribute of human love!"
["Scenes Beyond the Western Border," Southern Literary Messenger 19 (March 1853): 158 with the following comment by the narrator, which for some reason has been deleted in the 1857 book version,  

Scenes and Adventures in the Army]
July 8th.—Those who lack faith that the above was dreamed, spoken and scribbled, as described, lack, too, experience of the human mind, and prairie or desert influences and feelings.

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