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THE HASHISH MAN I was at a dinner in London the other day. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN I WAS AT A DINNER IN LONDON THE OTHER DAY
s of men pass quietly here and hence, and Fuzi-Yama watches there--and knows." And the watchers in the gate said, "Enter in." And I, too, would have told them a tale, very wonderful and very true; one that I had told in many cities, which as yet had no believers. But now the sun had set, and the brief twilight gone, and ghostly silences were rising from far and darkening hills. A stillness hung over that city's gate. And the great silence of the solemn night was more acceptable to the watchers in the gate than any sound of man. Therefore they beckoned to us, and motioned with their hands that we should pass untaxed into the city. And softly we went up over the sand, and between the high rock pillars of the gate, and a deep stillness settled among the watchers, and the stars over them twinkled undisturbed. For how short a while man speaks, and withal how vainly. And for how long he is silent. Only the other day I met a king in Thebes, who had been silent already for four thousand years.  THE HASHISH MAN CHAPTER NINE OF A DREAMER'S TALES BY LORD DUNSANI THE SLEEPER FOX RECORDING IS IN
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