The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaAn ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together. |
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Desire did not become my noble husband Shridaman , it became neither his head nor his body , which after all , you is the important factor . His body lying there , so piteously severed from its head , did not know how to shape the rites ...
Desire did not become my noble husband Shridaman , it became neither his head nor his body , which after all , you is the important factor . His body lying there , so piteously severed from its head , did not know how to shape the rites ...
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Must you still go on , with your ogling , licking , slavering , your knees giving way with desire when the object of your delusion heaves in sight ? Yes , yes , I know , I know it all : the body , I of love , with bitter lust bedewed ...
Must you still go on , with your ogling , licking , slavering , your knees giving way with desire when the object of your delusion heaves in sight ? Yes , yes , I know , I know it all : the body , I of love , with bitter lust bedewed ...
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We need only recall that to realize how much obsessed a man is , not only with the desired one but with desire itself ; how he is not seeking sanity but intoxication and yearning , and fears nothing more than to be undeluded , that is ...
We need only recall that to realize how much obsessed a man is , not only with the desired one but with desire itself ; how he is not seeking sanity but intoxication and yearning , and fears nothing more than to be undeluded , that is ...
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| Titel | The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India |
| Autor/in | Thomas Mann |
| Übersetzt von | Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1941 |
| Länge | 194 Seiten |
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