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In his earlier boyhood a strolling company of\r\nyoung collegian pedestrians had chanced to light upon the rock; and,\r\nstruck with its remarkableness, had brought a score of picks and spades,\r\nand dug round it to unearth it, and find whether indeed it were a\r\ndemoniac freak of nature, or some stern thing of antediluvian art.\r\nAccompanying this eager party, Pierre first beheld that deathless son of\r\nTerra. At that time, in its untouched natural state, the statue\r\npresented nothing but the turbaned head of igneous rock rising from out\r\nthe soil, with its unabasable face turned upward toward the mountain,\r\nand the bull-like neck clearly defined. With distorted features, scarred\r\nand broken, and a black brow mocked by the upborn moss, Enceladus there\r\nsubterraneously stood, fast frozen into the earth at the junction of the\r\nneck. Spades and picks soon heaved part of his Ossa from him, till at\r\nlast a circular well was opened round him to the depth of some thirteen\r\nfeet. At that point the wearied young collegians gave over their\r\nenterprise in despair. With all their toil, they had not yet come to the\r\ngirdle of Enceladus. But they had bared good part of his mighty chest,\r\nand exposed his mutilated shoulders, and the stumps of his once\r\naudacious arms. Thus far uncovering his shame, in that cruel plight they\r\nhad abandoned him, leaving stark naked his in vain indignant chest to\r\nthe defilements of the birds, which for untold ages had cast their\r\nfoulness on his vanquished crest.\r\n\r\nNot unworthy to be compared with that leaden Titan, wherewith the art of\r\nMarsy and the broad-flung pride of Bourbon enriched the enchanted\r\ngardens of Versailles;--and from whose still twisted mouth for sixty\r\nfeet the waters yet upgush, in elemental rivalry with those Etna flames,\r\nof old asserted to be the malicious breath of the borne-down giant;--not\r\nunworthy to be compared with that leaden demi-god--piled with costly\r\nrocks, and with one bent wrenching knee protruding from the broken\r\nbronze;--not unworthy to be compared with that bold trophy of high art,\r\nthis American Enceladus, wrought by the vigorous hand of Nature's self,\r\nit did go further than compare;--it did far surpass that fine figure\r\nmolded by the inferior skill of man. Marsy gave arms to the eternally\r\ndefenseless; but Nature, more truthful, performed an amputation, and\r\nleft the impotent Titan without one serviceable ball-and-socket above\r\nthe thigh.\r\n\r\nSuch was the wild scenery--the Mount of Titans, and the repulsed group\r\nof heaven-assaulters, with Enceladus in their midst shamefully recumbent\r\nat its base;--such was the wild scenery, which now to Pierre, in his\r\nstrange vision, displaced the four blank walls, the desk, and camp-bed,\r\nand domineered upon his trance. But no longer petrified in all their\r\nignominious attitudes, the herded Titans now sprung to their feet; flung\r\nthemselves up the slope; and anew battered at the precipice's\r\nunresounding wall. Foremost among them all, he saw a moss-turbaned,\r\narmless giant, who despairing of any other mode of wreaking his\r\nimmitigable hate, turned his vast trunk into a battering-ram, and hurled\r\nhis own arched-out ribs again and yet again against the invulnerable\r\nsteep.\r\n\r\n\"Enceladus! it is Enceladus!\"--Pierre cried out in his sleep. That\r\nmoment the phantom faced him; and Pierre saw Enceladus no more; but on\r\nthe Titan's armless trunk, his own duplicate face and features\r\nmagnifiedly gleamed upon him with prophetic discomfiture and woe. With\r\ntrembling frame he started from his chair, and woke from that ideal\r\nhorror to all his actual grief.\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKHN245ZX19F3Z3HV21AE","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN24V4DVPGEF8W499013B","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:57.499Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:34.456Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}