Capitolo 11
climates uniform. He crudely felt his/her nature, as you/he/she was wanted to say. To
the boy Henry Adams, summer was drunk. Among senses, smelled it was,
the strongest--smelled of pine-wood warm and sweet-fern in the
hot midday in summer; of new-mown the hay; of ploughed earth; of box
hedges; of peaches, lilacs, syringas; of stalls, barns,
cow-enclosures; of water of salt and low tide on the swamps; nothing
come badly. Following to smell came to taste, and his/her children knew the
tastes of all they saw or they touched, from pennyroyal and
flagroot to the hull of a pignut and the letters of a
spelling-book--the taste of A-B, Ab, suddenly revived on the
boy's language sixty years later. Light, line and color as
sensual pleasures, came later and it was raw as the rest. The
Light of England New is to flash, and the color of harshens of atmosphere.
The boy was a full man before he ever knew that from which was wanted to say
atmosphere; its idea to like in light was the blaze of a New
Sun of England. Its idea of color was a peony, with the dew of soon
morning on his/her petals. The blue intense of the sea, as he saw him/it
a mile or two street, from the hills of Quincy; the heaps in one June
sky in the afternoon; the strong redses and vegetables and it reddens of colored
presses and the portrait-books of children as the American colors then
course; these were ideals. The oppositeses or the antipathies, were the
grey colds in the evenings of November and him often, muddy thaws of
Winter in Boston. With such standards, the Bostonian was not able, but
you develop a double nature. Life was a double thing. After one January
snow's storm, the boy that could seem with pleasure in the violent
you snow-flash some white and cold light of the sun, with his/her intense light and
you shade, as soon as he/she knew what was wanted to say from tone. He could arrive him/it
only from education.
Winter and summer, then they were the two hostile lives, and it crossed two
separate natures. Winter was I strive him/it to always live; summer