Across the foliated space of the twenty - seven equivalents , Faustroll conjured up into the third dimension :  

 

From Baudelaire, E. A. Poe's Silence, taking care to retranslate Baudelaire's translation into Greek.

From Bergerac, the precious tree into which the nightingale-king and his subjects were metamorphosed, in the land of the sun.

From Luke, the Calumniator who carried Christ on to a high place.

From Bloy, the black pigs of Death, retinue of the Betrothed.

From Coleridge, the ancient mariner's crossbow and the ship's floating skeleton, which, when placed in the skiff, was sieve upon sieve.

From Darien, the diamond crowns of the Saint-Gothard rock-drillers.

From Desbordes-Valmore, the duck placed by the woodcutter at the children's feet, and the fifty-three trees with scored barks.

From Elskamp, the hares, running over the sheets, which became cupped hands and carried the spherical universe like a fruit.

From Florian, Scapin's lottery ticket.

From The Thousand and One Nights, the eye of the third Kalender, who was the son of a king: the eye poked out by the tail of the flying horse.

From Grabbe, the thirteen journeymen tailors massacred at dawn by Baron Mordax on the order of the knight of the papal order of Civil Merit, and the table napkin which he tied round his neck beforehand.

From Kahn, one of the golden peals from the celestial gold smiths' shops.

From Lautrémont, the scarab, beautiful as the trembling of hands in alcoholism, which vanished over the horizon.

From Maeterlinck, the lights heard by the first blind sister.

From Mallarmé, the virgin, the bright, and the beautiful today.

From Mendès, the north wind which blew upon the green sea and blended with its salt the sweat of the galley slave who rowed until he was a hundred and twenty years old.

From The Odyssey, the joyful walk of the irreproachable son of Peleus in the meadow of asphodels.

From Péladan, the reflection, in the mirror of the shield silvered with ancestral ashes, of the sacrilegious massacre of the seven planets.

From Rabelais, the little bells to which the devils danced during the tempest.

From Rachilde, Cleopatra.

From Régnier, the sorrel plain where the modern centaur snorted.

From Rimbaud, the icicles hurled by the wind of God into the waters.

From Schwob, the scaly animals imitated by the whiteness of the leper's hands.

From Ubu Roi, the fifth letter of the first word of the first act.

From Verhaeren, the cross made by the spade in the horizon's four bows.

From Verlaine, voices asymptotic toward death.

From Verne, the two and a half leagues of the earth's crust.

Meanwhile, René-Isidore Panmuphle, bailiff, began to read Faustroll's manuscript in deep darkness, substantiating the invisible ink of sulphate of quinine by means of the invisible infrared rays of a spectrum whose other colors were locked in an opaque box; until he was interrupted by the introduction of the third traveler.