--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- He now remembered too that in the East he had once been told that, when there was lightning in the night sky and a thunderstorm was unable to break, the flowers down below sometimes emitted a small flame from their calices or a strong, quiet glow even stood over them, not moving and yet not burning the leaves and tender stamens. Indeed, these flowers are at their most beautiful then.
-Adalbert Stifter,
Abdias
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
