x a strange feeling of peace pervaded that city metropolitan to the presence of the seraphic calm of the rural environment , with his docile and multiform tones of color , that however they seemed all so you graduate and delicate to seem colorless , almost opaque ; the placid silence , alternated by the thin echis of small animals or near and distant bugs , in a flash , it turned him into the mind of the variegated giuliano in a deaf humming that presaged the arrival of the oppressive boredom .