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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: whole anatomy was a mystery I never attempted to explain); I saw the
lantern jaws, the protuberant bones, the abnormal development of the
hips; and the movements of these figures as they came and went seemed
to me no whit less extraordinary than their sepulchral immobility as
they sat round the card-tables.
"The men looked gray and faded like the ancient tapestries on the
wall, in dress they were much more like the men of the day, but even
they were not altogether convincingly alive. Their white hair, their
withered waxen-hued faces, their devastated foreheads and pale eyes,
revealed their kinship to the women, and neutralized any effects of
reality borrowed from their costume.
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