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O Guarani 16.79 · 16.79

A silver ocean of delirium

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Não pensava; delirava. Diante de seus olhos, a imaginação exaltada lhe apresentava um mar argênteo, um oceano de metal fundido, alvo e resplandecente, que ia se perder no infinito. As vagas desse mar de prata, ora achamalotavam-se, ora rolavam formando frocos de espumas, que pareciam flores de diamantes, de esmeraldas e rubins cintilando à luz do sol.

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He was not thinking; he was raving. Before his eyes, his exalted imagination showed him a silvery sea, an ocean of molten metal, white and resplendent, that went to lose itself in the infinite. The waves of that sea of silver now rippled like watered silk, now rolled forming flakes of foam that seemed flowers of diamonds, emeralds and rubies glittering in the light of the sun.

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