summer noon
No cloak of insanest belief , of dullest mistake , would henceforth hide any more the dreary nakedness of the skeleton , life ! The world lay in clearest , barest , coldest light , its hopeless deceit and its misery all revealed ! It was well that a grumous fog pervaded the air , each atom a spike in a vesicle of darkness ! it was well that no summer noon was blazing about the world ! At least there was no mockery now ! the world was not pretending to be happy ! was not helping the demon of laughter to jeer at the misery of men !