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The Wonders of Instinct

CHAPTER 5
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It is a clandestine burial.

The body seems to disappear of itself, as though engulfed by a fluid medium.

For a long time yet, until the depth is regarded as sufficient, the body will continue to descend.
It is, when all is taken into account, a very simple operation.

As the diggers, underneath the corpse, deepen the cavity into which it sinks, tugged and shaken by the sextons, the grave, without their intervention, fills of itself by the mere downfall of the shaken soil.
Useful shovels at the tips of their claws, powerful backs, capable of creating a little earthquake: the diggers need nothing more for the practice of their profession.

Let us add--for this is an essential point--the art of continually jerking and shaking the body, so as to pack it into a lesser volume and cause it to pass when passage is obstructed.


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