The Double Garden

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The Double Garden is by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The text speaks of a road by which every one, even the poor, has the right to pass, and of a fair path which none may tread. The text also describes a kitchen where the earthenware pots elbow and nudge one another on the shelves, the copper stew-pans scatter spots of light over the smooth white walls, and the motherly stove hums a soft tune and dandles three saucepans.

A speaker touches the magical handles, the fairy horse stops abruptly, and the speaker asks how to resuscitate what is now nothing more than a vast, inert mass of metal. The text says that the Jewish and Christian God, for instance, declared Himself incommensurable, containing all things, with eternity and infinity among His first attributes, and that the infinite is an abstract and tenebrous notion.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.