child-animal

Updated: May 26, 2025

I shut my eyes, bemused, and think of a bygone merry-making; and I remember that I once saw, at the end of a hunt, against the operatic background of a forest, a child-animal whose life gushed out amid general delight. A voice is speaking beside me. No doubt the moon has come out I cannot see as high as the cloud escarpments, as high as the sky's opening.

Henri Barbusse - Light