Diary 3

[gemini]

DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1900, it said in a copperplate script unlike the lettering of today, and round the year thus confidently heralded, the first year of the century, winged with hope, clustered the signs of the zodiac, each somehow contriving to suggest a plenitude life and power, each glorious, though differing from the others in glory.

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DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1900, it said in a copperplate script unlike the lettering of today, and round the year thus confidently heralded, the first year of the century, winged with hope, clustered the signs of the zodiac, each somehow contriving to suggest a plenitude life and power, each glorious, though differing from the others in glory.
1900 was the first year of the new century.


...and round the year thus confidently healded = To hearld is to announce. The new year has been looked to as being a good year. The signs of the Zodiac were arranged (month-to-month or sign-to- sign) around the diagram of the new year.



winged with hope, clustered the signs of the zodiac = There are 12 signs of the zodiac each roughly a month long. Some people believe that the sign they are born under (their birthday) has an influence of their lives. The clustered the signs part means that the signs of the Zodiac were arranged next to each other.

The final part = Each part of the Zodiac was working or planning (contriving) to show a good (plenitude, plenty) life full of power. Each was wonderful, but they were different from each other in how they were.

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Gil

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and round the year thus confidently heralded
the new year promised new things, new hopes?

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and continuing thus:

How well I remembered them, their shapes and attitudes! And I remembered too, though it was no longer potent for me, the magic with which they were then invested, and the tingling sense of coming fruition they conveyed -- the lowly creatures no less than the exalted ones.

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and the tingling sense of coming fruition they conveyed

the lowly creatures no less than the exalted ones