Delusion and dreamMoffat, Yard, 1917 - 243 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Albergo del Sole already antique Apollo Apollo Belvedere appeared ashes asphodel awakened bas-relief beautiful become brooch Capitoline Venus Capri chatoyant childhood connection conscious couple course destruction of Pompeii Diomed diva dream dream-content dreamer erotic eroticism excavated expression eyes fancies father feeling formerly glance Greek gresso Gretchen hand Hanold's delusion hero Hotel idea imagination impulse Italy journey latter lips lizard lizard-catcher looked manner of walking means Meleager's house memory mind Miss Zoë Monte Sant Naples noon hour Norbert Hanold perhaps peristyle pillars Pompeiian girl portico possessed present probably psychic recognized remained repressed repressed memories rose scious seemed sleep speech step stood story Strada di Mercurio strange street suddenly sure temple thing thought thousand years ago tion to-day trip Tyrrhenian Sea uncon unconscious Vesuvius Villa of Diomede Wilhelm Jensen wish woman young archaeologist young lady Zoë Bertgang Zoë-Gradiva Zoë's zoologist
Popular passages
Page 121 - does not even dream of. In psychic knowledge, indeed, they are far ahead of us, ordinary people, because they draw from sources that we have not yet made accessible for science.
Page 121 - ^Storytellers are valuable allies, and their testimony is to be rated high, for they usually know many things between heaven and earth that our academic
Page 5 - flight-like poise, combined with a firm step, lent her the peculiar grace. Where had she walked thus and whither was she going? Doctor Norbert Hanold, decent of archaeology, really found in the relief nothing noteworthy for his science. It was not a plastic production of great art of the
Page 204 - he had, without himself knowing the motive in his heart, come to Italy on that account and had, without stop, continued from Rome and Naples to Pompeii to see if he could here find trace of her—and that in a literal sense,—for, with her unusual gait, she must have left behind in the ashes a foot-print different from all the others.
Page 162 - There is no better analogy for repression, which at the same time makes inaccessible and conserves something psychic, than the burial which was the fate of Pompeii, and from which the city was able to
Page 13 - there she lay, protected by the projecting roof, stretched out on the broad step, as if for sleep, but no longer breathing, apparently stifled by the sulphur fumes. From Vesuvius the red glow flared over her countenance, which, with closed eyes, was exactly like that of a beautiful statue. ( No fear nor distortion was apparent, but a strange equanimity, calmly submitting
Page 129 - he is destined to be a poet or a neurotic, and he belongs to that race of beings whose realm is not of this world.
Page 162 - raising her dress slightly with her left hand, Gradiva rediviva Zoë Bertgang, viewed by him with dreamily observing eyes, crossed with her calmly buoyant walk, through the sunlight, over the stepping-stones.
Page 117 - Zoë Bertgang, viewed by him with dreamily observing eyes, crossed with her calmly buoyant walk, through the sunlight, over the stepping-stones, to the other side of the street.
Page 137 - what is the nature of the physical manifestation of a being like Gradiva, dead and alive at the same time, although the latter was true only in the noon hour of