exalting now in his new vastness , he grew increasingly disappointed to realize that he was , contrastingly , quite small in relation to his surroundings , as he , in his meticulously-devised human form had now taken on the excessively diminutive role of a serf at the close of the bronze age , clothed in rags , laboring with the other freed slaves now in the comparably providential abundance of semi-slavery in the ancient fields of a remote , prehistoric land .