Tantalus, or, the future of man / by F.C.S. Schiller.

  • Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
Date:
1924
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Credit: Tantalus, or, the future of man / by F.C.S. Schiller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FUTURE OF MAN around the fence ; they were enormous and hardly seemed human in their shape, though they were too deeply plunged in the mud to permit one to see what exactly was wrong with them. This strange being, whom the bold intuition of the dream-consciousness at once identified with Tantalus, was evidently trying to grasp the fruit that hung from the lower branches of the tree. For a while his efforts were vain, but then a gust of wind brought within his reach a large conical shining red fruit he had long coveted. It was one of the strange features of the tree that it was covered with fruit, and higher up also with flowers, of the most various sizes, shapes, and colours. He seized it triumphantly ; but the effect was surprising. For he had hardly [13]
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