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And the doctrine applies especially in youth, when the clay of life is still soft and
the I- and my-feelings not yet hardened into the division of the single personality.
Young Shridaman was a merchant, and the son of a merchant; Nanda, on the ...
And the doctrine applies especially in youth, when the clay of life is still soft and
the I- and my-feelings not yet hardened into the division of the single personality.
Young Shridaman was a merchant, and the son of a merchant; Nanda, on the ...
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... main thing, and the head merely a pleasing appendage. All in all the two were
like Siva in his double manifestation, lying sometimes as dead, a bearded ascetic
, at the feet of the goddess, but sometimes erect, a figure in the bloom of youth, ...
... main thing, and the head merely a pleasing appendage. All in all the two were
like Siva in his double manifestation, lying sometimes as dead, a bearded ascetic
, at the feet of the goddess, but sometimes erect, a figure in the bloom of youth, ...
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For no^ he was like the prince Gandarhva Citraratha ii his unearthly charm, like
the love-god in hi sweetest guise, full of beauty and youth, ravishing to the sense,
adorned with heavenly ornament, with necklaces of flowers, sweet odours, and ...
For no^ he was like the prince Gandarhva Citraratha ii his unearthly charm, like
the love-god in hi sweetest guise, full of beauty and youth, ravishing to the sense,
adorned with heavenly ornament, with necklaces of flowers, sweet odours, and ...
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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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Abschnitt 1 | 11 |
Abschnitt 2 | 50 |
Abschnitt 3 | 66 |
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Andhaka Anton Janson bathing-place beauty Bermann-Fischer Verlag Bhavabhuti blind bliss body Brahman breast BUDDENBROOKS called cried death DEATH IN VENICE deed desire dream embraced eyes face father feast feel fire Fischer Verlag flesh flowers friend-body Garga goat-nose goddess Goldfly H. T. Lowe-Porter hand happiness head and limbs headpiece heart hermit hips holy honour husband husband-body hushed Indra kadamba tree Kamadamana lips listen live look lovely Sita lucky-calf lock lust Maya Mother mountain mustard oil my-feeling ness Nirvana Novel Berlin pale polyandry round sacrifice Samsara sandalwood sense Shri Shrida sight Sita's Siyat soft soul speak spirit stood stout arms Sumantra sword swung tell things THOMAS MANN thou thought tion took Translated by H. T. TRANSPOSED HEADS tree turned unpeopled void Vedas voice warrior blood wedded Welfare of Cows womb words yearning youth
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India |
| Autor | Thomas Mann |
| Übersetzt von | Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1941 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 194 Seiten |
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