We saw how the interconnectedness of primitive impulse and cultural splendour was less forcefully, indeed almost obscurely, expressed through a scholarly excursus which could hardly compete in impact with the 'magnificent blond beast lustfully prowling after booty and victory'; and we saw how the 'blond beast' image was itself crudened, from meaning a psychological factor in man to meaning primitive man in general.

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Across the street, at 50 Maiden Lane, is Sergio Old Prints (40), which offers an excellent selection of old San Francisco prints and other Californiana.

Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.