ONE pleasant day in the latter part of eternity, as the Shades of all the great writers were reposing upon beds of asphodel and moly in
the Elysian fields, each happy in hearing from the lips of the others nothing but copious quotation from his own works (for so Jove had kindly bedeviled their ears), there came in among them with triumphant mien a Shade whom none knew.
Mary then looked at him as Dido looked at AEneas in
the Elysian fields, fierce and disdainful.
With a considerable amount of jingling and whip-cracking, and many plunging demonstrations on the part of two bare-backed horses and two centaurs with glazed hats, jack-boots, and flowing manes and tails, they rattle out of the yard of the Hotel Bristol in the Place Vendome and canter between the sun-and-shadow-chequered colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli and the garden of the ill-fated palace of a headless king and queen, off by the Place of Concord, and the Elysian Fields, and the Gate of the Star, out of Paris.
Only last Sunday, when poor wretches were gay--within the walls playing with children among the clipped trees and the statues in the Palace Garden; walking, a score abreast, in the Elysian Fields, made more Elysian by performing dogs and wooden horses; between whiles filtering (a few) through the gloomy Cathedral of Our Lady to say a word or two at the base of a pillar within flare of a rusty little gridiron-full of gusty little tapers; without the walls encompassing Paris with dancing, love-making, wine-drinking, tobacco-smoking, tomb-visiting, billiard card and domino playing, quack-doctoring, and much murderous refuse, animate and inanimate--only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
Indeed,
the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris.
I am not meddling with theology but it seems to me that in
the Elysian fields she'll have her place in a very special company."
I don't want him galloping off into
the Elysian Fields just yet.
Police initially launched a murder probe after the tragic death of taxi driver James Balshaw, at
the Elysian Fields complex, on Colquitt Street, last September.
Enjoy both magnificent coastal and mountain views as you pass through
the Elysian Fields.
Zero encounters three characters in
the Elysian Fields, Shrdlu, Daisy, and Charles, and through them he realizes that by having chosen to live a submissive life, he had been trapped in a meaningless, thoughtless, and soul-deadening job.
We'd forgotten the joys of traipsing backwards and forwards over
the Elysian fields that are the floors of the car park.
I see them sidelined on the edge of
the Elysian Fields as the parade passes by, Pope Paul VI and John Paul I watching the new saintly superstars swanning past.