Moon

The Doctor

Platonic conception

Colors

Characters

He was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn’t far off.  About five o’clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light.

            Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.

            “I spoke to her,” he muttered, after a long silence.  “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God.  I took her to the window--” With an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it, “—and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing.  You may fool me but you can’t fool God!’ ”  

            Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night.

            “God sees everything,” repeated Wilson.

            “That’s an advertisement,” Michaelis assured him.  Something made him turn away from the window and look back into the room.  But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight.