XI. The World of Dreams as a Transitional Current between the Physical-Natural World and the World of Moral Concepts

Actually, what he saw was like a dream, and it could have happened if his will had remained intact, that instead of a magpie, he would have shot some kind of scoundrel that was half cat and half elephant. If it had fallen down, it would have transformed itself, being half frog and half nightingale, with a devil's tail, because it would have transformed itself while falling.