Para responder às questões 31 a 40, leia o texto abaixo.

Ennui (In)

Clark Ashton Smith

1. In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold, and
2. whose pillars are fluted sapphire, reclines the
3. emperor Chan, on his couch of ebony set with opals
4. and rubies, and cushioned with the furs of unknown
5. and gorgeous beasts. With implacable and weary
6. gaze, from beneath unmoving lids that seem carven
7. of purple-veined onyx, he stares at the crystal
8. windows, giving upon the infinite fiery azures of a
9. tropic sky and sea. Oppressive as nightmare, a
10. formless nameless fatigue, heavier than any burden
11. the slaves of the mines must bear, lies forever at his
12. heart: all deliriums of Love and wine, the agonizing
13. ecstasy of drugs, even the deepest and the faintest
14. pulse of delight or pain-all are proven, all are futile,
15. for the outworn but insatiate emperor. Even for a new
16. grief, or a subtler pang than any felt before, he thinks,
17. lying on his bed of ebony, that he would give the
18. silver and vermilion of all his mines, with the crowded
19. caskets, the carcanets and crowns that lie in his most
20. immemorial treasure-vault, Vainly, with the verse of
21. the more inventive poets, the fanciful purple-
22. threaded fabrics of the subtlest looms, the unfamiliar
23. gems and minerals from the uttermost land, the pallid
24. leaves and blood-like petals of a rare and venomous
25. blossom-vainly, with all these, and many stranger
26. devices, wilder, more wonderful diversions, the
27. slaves and sultanas have sought to alleviate the iron
28. hours. One by one he has dismissed them with a
29. weary gesture. And now, in the silence of the heavily
30. curtained alcove, he lies alone, with the canker of
31. ennui at his heart, like the undying mordant worm at
32. the heart of the dead.

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