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Updated: June 20, 2025
I saw nothing distinctly, for my whole being reeled and toppled drunken, like a spinning-top in desperate death-struggle at the moment when it flags, and wobbles dissolutely to fall; but the very instant that my eyes met what was before me, I knew, I knew, that here was the Sanctity of Sanctities, the old eternal inner secret of the Life of this Earth, which it was a most burning shame for a man to see.
There was one waiter in especial who was the most accomplished social being I have ever encountered; from morning till night he kept up an inarticulate murmur of urbanity, like the hum of a spinning-top.
But on the other hand, no inertia, no submission! Wake up! English or French working-men would follow me in a trice. You are a pack of valets. In such a whirl Helene von Dönniges was shot off from his mind as a spinning-top throws off a straw.
A third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling. Another reproduced the most singular combinations with a spinning-top. In his hands the revolving tops seemed to be animated with a life of their own in their interminable whirling.
They turn and twist them so well that they become, one after another, a spinning-top, a boat, a wine-glass, a half-moon, a cap, a basket, a fish, a whip, a dagger, a baby, and a man's head. This is an exact image of the despotism with which you ought to shape and reshape your wife.
He's like a rose-leaf and he's got six dimples, not counting his hands and feet for I've found and kissed 'em all on different parts of his blessed little body. Dinky-Dunk came back from Buckhorn yesterday with a lot of the foolishest things you ever clapped eyes on a big cloth elephant that grunts when you pull its tail, a musical spinning-top, a high-chair, and a projecting lantern.
All that silence and absence of goings-on is the stillness of infinite motion the sleep of the spinning-top, to borrow the simile of a well-known writer." "Oh, well, it med be all that, or it med not. As I say, I didn't see nothing of it the hour or two I was there; so I went in and had a pot o' beer, and a penny loaf, and a ha'porth o' cheese, and waited till it was time to come along home.
But listen, you are a democrat, are you not?" "Yes, of course." "Then you must change your point of view, for now an oligarchy governs Athens." "Yes, ah! yes, yes but I am an aristocrat, the most aristocratic in the State." "Spinning-top! Seek for a whip!" Alcibiades stood still. "I think, I must speak with the Athenian after all." "Do that! Speak the Athenian language to him!
He was as much merrier than you, for instance, as you are merrier than your father. Sometimes he fell, like a spinning-top, from sheer merriment. Have you seen a greyhound leaping the fences of the Gardens? That is how Peter leaps them. And think of the music of his pipe.
'This is delicious air, he heard Minks saying to his cousin in the distance to his deaf side judging by the answer: 'Delicious here yes, isn't it? Something had lit the stars.... Minks and his cousin continued idly talking. Their voices twittered like birds in empty space. The children had scattered like marbles from a spinning-top.
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