The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaAn ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together. |
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Happier still I was to hear from you that she is a good maiden; for that was a
means still more easily to go behind her image and understand her soul. And
then her lengthening her eyes in the shape of a lotus leaf, and painting the
lashes a little ...
Happier still I was to hear from you that she is a good maiden; for that was a
means still more easily to go behind her image and understand her soul. And
then her lengthening her eyes in the shape of a lotus leaf, and painting the
lashes a little ...
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... of such a phenomenon. Otherwise you would not have spoken with such
unpardonable coarseness of the fine shape it has taken on. Do you not know,
then, that in every female shape—child, maid, mother or grey-haired woman—
she, 43.
... of such a phenomenon. Otherwise you would not have spoken with such
unpardonable coarseness of the fine shape it has taken on. Do you not know,
then, that in every female shape—child, maid, mother or grey-haired woman—
she, 43.
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that in every female shape—child, maid, mother or grey-haired woman—she, the
All-Mother hides herself, the all-nourisher, Sakti, the great goddess; of whose
womb all things come, into whose womb all things go; whom we honour and
praise ...
that in every female shape—child, maid, mother or grey-haired woman—she, the
All-Mother hides herself, the all-nourisher, Sakti, the great goddess; of whose
womb all things come, into whose womb all things go; whom we honour and
praise ...
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Bibliografische Informationen
| 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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