Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly "very beautiful" girls, and not only to girls. They keep at it, walk alongside, praising their wares until you answer roughly. They don't know that you have resolved to eat nothing but rice just to escape from sexuality!


Letter from Naples, Italy to Otto Grautoff (1896); as quoted in A Gorgon's Mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction (2005) by Lewis A. Lawson, p. 35

Thomas Mann Quotes

Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly very beautiful girls,...

Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly very beautiful girls,...

Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly very beautiful girls,...

Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly very beautiful girls,...