they had changed into objects like flesh-coloured cabbages, obscene and distilling a dense almost indecent scent.
+..Retreat... +..Tekno +.. Industrial Tekno (EBM) Right Where We Are by Fhloston Paradigm + PESKA - Kick It Slow [ENNI1] by Stefan ZMK + RAW Second Breath 1/4 by Compilation In a family which for centuries had been incapable even of adding up their own expenditure and subtracting their own debts he was the first (and last) to have a genuine bent for mathematics; this he had applied to astronomy, and by his work gained a certain official recognition and a great deal of personal pleasure. In his mind, now, pride and mathematical analysis were so linked as to give him an illusion that the stars obeyed his calculations too (as, in fact, they seemed to be doing) and that the two small planets which he had discovered (Salina and Speedy he had called them, after his main estate and a shooting-dog he had been particularly fond of) would spread the fame of his family throughout the empty spaces between Mars and Jupiter, thus transforming the frescoes in the villa from the adulator...