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Updated: May 21, 2025
In fact, I hated to see it; for it reminded me of the natural barrier between Animula and myself. I hurriedly looked down on the stage of the microscope. The slide was still there but, great heavens, the water drop had vanished!
I wonder if, as he crushed that butterfly, he said to himself in words that have grown commonplace since his time the words of that strange emperor Hadrian Animula, vagula, blandula!
Hadrian's famous "animula vagula blandula" gives the same idea, and it would be difficult to imagine a disembodied spirit which retains its personality and returns to earth again except as a kind of immaterial likeness of its earthly self. We often hear of the extreme pallor of ghosts, which was doubtless due to their being bloodless and to the pallor of death itself.
Who could talk sense when his brain is haunted by such ghastly memories, while ever and anon among the shapes of death I behold the radiant form of my lost Animula! Théophile Gautier I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-
Come, my friend, how much is it? I ask the easiest interest in the world: old Mordecai, the usurer, has made you pay twice as heavily before now: nothing but the signature of a bond, which is a mere ceremony, and the transfer of an article which, in itself, is a supposition a valueless, windy, uncertain property of yours, called, by some poet of your own, I think, an animula, vagula, blandula bah! there is no use beating about the bush I mean A SOUL. Come, let me have it; you know you will sell it some other way, and not get such good pay for your bargain!" and, having made this speech, the Devil pulled out from his fob a sheet as big as a double Times, only there was a different STAMP in the corner.
Presently one of the trees as I must call them unfolded a long ciliary process, with which it seized one of the gleaming fruits that glittered on its summit, and, sweeping slowly down, held it within reach of Animula. The sylph took it in her delicate hand and began to eat.
Is this Animula or Rome, where rude clowns do not recognize their betters?" Then, for the first time, perceiving Sergius: "Greeting to you, my Lucius! May the gods favour you better than they have the Republic this day." At that moment, a big, hulking fellow thrust himself forward in the path of the advancing patrician and hiccoughed out: "May you meet with a plague, master!
The end was drawing on: the golden bowl was breaking; the silver cord was fast being loosed that animula, blandula, vagula, hospes, comesque, was about to flee. The body and the soul companions for sixty years were being sundered, and taking leave.
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