... red-veined hearts and livers; of the piles of cabbage and cauli-flowers, the rows of tin ware and copper saucepans, the heaps of maccaroni and pastes, of spices and drugs; the garlands of onions and red ... like the Land West of the Moon and East of the Sun thanthey are like Sancho Panza's island. All real mankind, past, present, and future, has similarly been swept away and replaced by a miraculous ... civilization of the day of Abélard, Provençal civilization of the days of the Raymonds, brilliant and evanescent Hohenstauffensupremacy, papacy at Canossa and at Avignon, Templars triumphant and...