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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27180#0274
PYRAMID AND TEMPLE
to an artistic conception so remote from ours. In this place,
and here alone. The sphinx belongs to the place it watches,
at the foot of the pyramids, and this proximity still further
emphasizes its strangeness. The sphinx watched over the
age which possessed both the aristocratic objectivity which
could turn into geometry without going stiff and numb; and
that other boundless capacity, the primitive sense of child’s
play, which improvised in the stone of the desert that
legendary creation in human shape for the glorification of
humanity. It watched over a childlike race of men.
The race is there no more. Away with the watcher!
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to an artistic conception so remote from ours. In this place,
and here alone. The sphinx belongs to the place it watches,
at the foot of the pyramids, and this proximity still further
emphasizes its strangeness. The sphinx watched over the
age which possessed both the aristocratic objectivity which
could turn into geometry without going stiff and numb; and
that other boundless capacity, the primitive sense of child’s
play, which improvised in the stone of the desert that
legendary creation in human shape for the glorification of
humanity. It watched over a childlike race of men.
The race is there no more. Away with the watcher!
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