THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



red, the second smaller which lies somewhat 

 further back in a groove on the head is emerald 

 green. Otherwise the body is as black as a httle 

 Satan. The intense blue fire is borne by echios- 

 toma; it streams from a three-cornered organ 

 behind the eye. Hastily scrambling along, a 

 shrimp works itself backward through the water. 

 Its coat of mail glows red as though it had 

 been cooked; but it appears as if it had been 

 cooked with a glowing sauce, for a glittering 

 slime streams around it like a broad halo. Sjvay- 

 ing like an awkwardly swinging pendulum a 

 simple little illuminated body goes irregularly 

 back and forth. Something loses itself behind 

 it in the dusk so that it seems like a glowing 

 berry swung on a thread suspended somewhere 

 in the darkness. The illuminated coral tree 

 solves this picture; the bearer of this wide 

 swinging pendulum passes before it and is in 

 reality only a thick fish with a dark body carry- 

 ing on the point of his snout a long nose like 

 thread that on its farthest point bears a lan- 

 tern. This lights a considerable space around 

 the bearer who himself remains buried in the 

 darkness. 



There, suddenly, it is dark again. Perhaps 

 something has disturbed the light bearer; in an 

 instant he has put out his light. Apparently it 

 is under perfect control. After a long time the 

 polyp tree begins to glow cautiously, not all p-t 

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