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729

She didn't know many words but made a sweet, luring sound in her throat, and when she felt his hands on her, his delicate, gentle hands so full of feeling, the like of which she had never felt before, her skin shivered and her throat made sounds like the purring of a cat.

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursele Molinaro, Bantam, 1971, p. 97.

PLACE: a farm in Germany

TIME: the Middle Ages

CIRCUMSTANCE: Goldmund and the farmer's wife make love

 

730.

His ear grew sensitive to every tone of voice; with certain women a cortain tone of voice infallibly told him the type and scope of their amorous capacities.

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursele Molinaro, Bantam, 1971, p. 100.

PLACE: the farmlands of Germany

TIME: the Middle Ages

CIRCUMSTANCE: Goldmund strikes out from the monastery

 

731.

He saw Lydia turn pale and bite her lip as he continued to tell anecdotes from his cloister days and felt the unknown lady listen intently, not so much to his stories as to the wooing in his voice. The others, too, sat listening, his master with benevolence, the guest with a stony face, although he, too, was affected by the fire that burned in the young man. Lydia had never heard him speak this way. He had blossomed, lust hung in the air, his eyes shone, ecstasy sang in his voice, love pleaded.

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursele Molinaro, Bantam, 1971, p. 104.

PLACE: the homestead of a knight in Germany

TIME: the Middle Ages

CIRCUMSTANCE: Goldmund tells tales


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