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As when we can recall so vividly
We almost touch,
Or think of all the gestures that we failed
To make.

Even the gods
Cowered like dogs at what they had done.

He imagined the gazelles raising the dry dust
Like soft brush floating on the crests of sand.

As if some faces could be doorways in
To life one has an image of
But never sees. The vista was
A strange and beautiful
Release

Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.

They fell like wolves
At each other's throats,
Like bulls bellowing,
And horses gasping for breath
That have run all day.

Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how.

[Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds

You are a human being now, not like them [the animals].

But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79]