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Beginning in ancient Thebes during Diocletian’s era, the narrator describes military setbacks and a restless pursuit of immortality after encountering a dying rider who speaks of a purifying river beyond the end of the world. The account follows the expedition into monstrous deserts, escalating fever, madness, desertions, and mutinies, culminating in separation and survival through perilous flight.","The Imeertal􀀊  \nJrtge Luis Brtges  \n1950  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nPreface................................................................. 1  \nI..............................................................................2  \nII............................................................................ 5  \nIII.........................................................................10  \nIV......................................................................... 13  \nPREFACE  \nSolomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.  \nFrancis Bacon: Essays, LVII  \nIn London, in early June of the year 1929, the rare book dealer Joseph Cartaphilus, of Smyrna, offered the princessde Lucingethe six quarto minor volumes (1715-1720) of Pope’s Iliad. The princess purchased them; when she took possession of them, she exchanged a few words with the dealer. He was, she says, an emaciated, grimy man with gray eyes and gray beard and singularly vague features. He expressed himself with untutored and uncorrected fluency in several languages; within scant minutes he shifted from French to English and from English to an enigmatic cross between the Spanish of Salonika and the Portuguese of Macao. In October, the princess heard from a passenger on the Zeus that Cartaphilus had died at sea while returning to Smyrna, and that he had been buried on the island oflos.  \nIn the last volume of the Iliad she found this manuscript.  \nIt is written in an English that teems with Latinisms; this is a verbatim transcription of the document.  \nIm  \nAs I recall, my travails began in a garden in hundred-gated Thebes, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. I had fought (with no glory) in the recent Egyptian wars and was tribune of a legion quartered in Berenice, on the banks of the Red Sea; there, fever and magic consumed many men who magnanimously coveted the steel blade. The Mauritanians were defeated; the lands once occupied by the rebel cities were dedicated in aeternitatem to the Plutonian gods; Alexandria, subdued, in vain sought Caesar's mercy; within the year the legions were to report their triumph, but I myself barely glimpsed the face of Mars. That privation grieved me, and was perhaps why I threw myself into the quest, through vagrant and terrible deserts, for the secret City of the Immortals.  \nMy travails, I have said, began in a garden in Thebes. All that night I did not sleep, for there was a combat in my heart. I rose at last a little before dawn. My slaves were sleeping; the moon was the color of the infinite sand. A bloody rider was approaching from the east, weak with exhaustion. A few steps from me, he dismounted and in a faint, insatiable voice asked me, in Latin, the name of the river whose waters laved the city's walls. I told him it was the Egypt, fed by the rains. \"It is another river that I seek,\" he replied morosely, \"the secret river that purifies men of death.\" Dark blood was welling from his breast. He told me that the country of his birth was a mountain that lay beyond the Ganges; it was rumored on that mountain, he told me, that if one traveled westward, to the end of the world, one would come to the river whose waters give immortality. He added that on the far shore of that river lay the City of the Immortals, a city rich in bulwarks and amphitheaters and temples. He died before dawn, but I resolved to go in quest of that city and its river. When interrogated by the torturer, some of the Mauritanian prisoners confirmed the traveler's tale: One of them recalled the Elysian plain, far at the ends of the earth, where men's lives are everlasting;  \nanother, the peaks from which the Pactolus flows, upon which men live for a hundred years. In Rome, I spoke with philosophers who felt that to draw out the span of a man's life was to draw out the agony of his dying and multiply the number of his deaths.","cbCaiaNyCgoiBOya","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaNyCgoiBOya","pdf",472938,3,1,21,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n# I\n# II\n# III\n# IV","[{\"question\":\"What is the manuscript presented in the preface?\",\"answer\":\"It is described as a verbatim transcription written in an English dense with Latinisms, framed by a story of rare volumes and later discovery.\"},{\"question\":\"Who initiates the narrator’s quest for immortality?\",\"answer\":\"A dying traveler/rider asks about a river, then reveals a secret river that purifies men of death and the City of the Immortals across it.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenges does the expedition face after leaving Arsinoë?\",\"answer\":\"The party endures extreme deserts and hostile lands, then suffers fever, insanity from tainted water, desertions, and mutinies, leading to flight and separation.\"}]","The Immortal | PDF",1787751526,32,{"code":4,"msg":32,"data":33},"ok",{"site_id":25,"language":24,"slug":34,"title":13,"keywords":35,"description":14,"schema_data":36,"social_meta":86,"head_meta":88,"extra_data":90,"updated_unix":29},"the-immortal","",{"@graph":37,"@context":85},[38,53,68],{"@type":39,"itemListElement":40},"BreadcrumbList",[41,45,48,50],{"item":42,"name":43,"@type":44,"position":21},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":46,"name":47,"@type":44,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",{"item":49,"name":12,"@type":44,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",{"item":51,"name":13,"@type":44,"position":52},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-immortal/146820/",4,{"url":51,"name":13,"@type":54,"author":55,"headline":13,"publisher":57,"fileFormat":60,"inLanguage":24,"description":14,"dateModified":61,"datePublished":62,"encodingFormat":60,"isAccessibleForFree":63,"interactionStatistic":64},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":56},"Person",{"url":42,"name":58,"@type":59},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-09-07","2026-08-26",true,{"@type":65,"interactionType":66,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":67},"ViewAction",{"@type":69,"mainEntity":70},"FAQPage",[71,77,81],{"name":72,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":74},"What is the manuscript presented in the preface?","Question",{"text":75,"@type":76},"It is described as a verbatim transcription written in an English dense with Latinisms, framed by a story of rare volumes and later discovery.","Answer",{"name":78,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":79},"Who initiates the narrator’s quest for immortality?",{"text":80,"@type":76},"A dying traveler/rider asks about a river, then reveals a secret river that purifies men of death and the City of the Immortals across it.",{"name":82,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":83},"What challenges does the expedition face after leaving Arsinoë?",{"text":84,"@type":76},"The party endures extreme deserts and hostile lands, then suffers fever, insanity from tainted water, desertions, and mutinies, leading to flight and separation.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":51,"og:type":87,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":58,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":89,"canonical":51},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":25},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":92},[93,97,100,104,109,114,119,124,129,132,136],{"id":21,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":94,"show_sort_weight":95,"slug":96},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},80,"literature",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":105,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":120,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":121,"show_sort_weight":122,"slug":123},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":130,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":131},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":133,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":134,"show_sort_weight":133,"slug":135},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":137,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":47,"category_name":138,"show_sort_weight":105,"slug":139},19,"General","general"]