The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaAn ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together. |
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mother had taken the lovely Sita upon her lap and Sita had granted to her narrow
-nosed husband the full enjoyment of wedded bliss. The heavy summer had
passed, and now the rainy season, covering the sky with floods of cloud, the
earth ...
mother had taken the lovely Sita upon her lap and Sita had granted to her narrow
-nosed husband the full enjoyment of wedded bliss. The heavy summer had
passed, and now the rainy season, covering the sky with floods of cloud, the
earth ...
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But neither am I angry with you, Sita. I, too, say Siyat to this miracle, for I have
always wanted a slender body like this, and now, when I speak for Indra's cult of
words and against simplification, it will become me better than it did before—or at
...
But neither am I angry with you, Sita. I, too, say Siyat to this miracle, for I have
always wanted a slender body like this, and now, when I speak for Indra's cult of
words and against simplification, it will become me better than it did before—or at
...
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I should not have dared to assert it, when your present body was still mine and
slept at Sita's side. For it was not that body she really embraced, as I learned to
my sorrow when she muttered in her sleep. Instead it was the one I now call my
own ...
I should not have dared to assert it, when your present body was still mine and
slept at Sita's side. For it was not that body she really embraced, as I learned to
my sorrow when she muttered in her sleep. Instead it was the one I now call my
own ...
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Nutzerbericht - polutropos - LibraryThingFew pages, leaving the reader with much to think about. What is attraction? What is beauty? What is the role of love and lust in a relationship? What is, ultimately, morality? Written with a light, humorous touch, the book is unforgettable. Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - fieldnotes - LibraryThingThis folkloric, Hindu-light treatment of desire, loyalty and identity lacks the craft, gravity and heft of other Thomas Mann novels. His few prose outbursts in description of beauty or deity seem ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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| Titel | The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India |
| Autor | Thomas Mann |
| Übersetzt von | Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Arthur George Rock |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1941 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 194 Seiten |
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