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Fifty-One Tales 35After the Fire

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Literature · Fantasy

Fifty-One Tales 35

After the Fire

DunsanyEnglish
When that happened which had been so long in happening and the world hit a black, uncharted star, certain tremendous creatures out of some other world came peering among the cinders to see if there were anything there that it were worth while to remember. They spoke of the great things that the world was known to have had; they mentioned the mammoth. And presently they saw man's temples, silent and windowless, staring like empty skulls.
"Some great thing has been here," one said, "in these huge places." "It was the mammoth," said one. "Something greater than he," said another.
And then they found that the greatest thing in the world had been the dreams of man.

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Sources & credits: Dunsany

Dunsany — Fifty-One Tales (Lord Dunsany) (author lived 1878–1957). Public Domain. Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #7838. Source

Literature · Fantasy

Fifty-One Tales 36

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