Parsifal: A NovelIn this glittering, kaleidoscopic new novel Peter Vansittart recreated and projects in his own inimitable style the familiar story from Wagner’s opera in historical perspective. |
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Page 58
... stag and drive it towards you . Then you must use your wits , which seem but few , your judgement , which hitherto ... stag must be close , and indeed , very soon , when the sun was at its highest , at the entrance of a glade a gleam ...
... stag and drive it towards you . Then you must use your wits , which seem but few , your judgement , which hitherto ... stag must be close , and indeed , very soon , when the sun was at its highest , at the entrance of a glade a gleam ...
Page 59
... stag was between him and the emptied lake . Refreshed , the stag remounted the bank and was at once rejoined by the snarling , snapping hound . The stag glared about him , unable to transfix his agile assailant , then saw Peredur but ...
... stag was between him and the emptied lake . Refreshed , the stag remounted the bank and was at once rejoined by the snarling , snapping hound . The stag glared about him , unable to transfix his agile assailant , then saw Peredur but ...
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... stag in the woods and couldn't rest until I saw it again . ' His eagerness lapsed , his voice flattened . ' They hunt , they cure , and they go away . ' Could he mean himself ? I was puzzled , until I remembered Gawain . Never having ...
... stag in the woods and couldn't rest until I saw it again . ' His eagerness lapsed , his voice flattened . ' They hunt , they cure , and they go away . ' Could he mean himself ? I was puzzled , until I remembered Gawain . Never having ...
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amongst Archbishop bards Bear Chief beauty beneath birds Black Brothers blood blue boar Cathars cauldron Clinschur cloak clouds colour Cundré Dagda dark dead death Deliverer despite dreams Duke Duke's dwarf earth Emperor epicene eyes face fear felt flowers Gawain girl gleaming gold golden Grail green grin Gundrygia Gwalchmai hair hand Hawk head heard honour horse hound House of Mystery Jesus Jews knew Kremitz Kundry ladies laugh leaves light listened looked lord lovers magic Medb Merlin Monseigneur moon mouth naked natal chart never night Nodens numbers once painted Palace Parsifal Perceval Perceval's Peredur perhaps piebald poet Queen remembered rose secret seemed shadows silver smile sometimes song soul spear Spider King spirit spoke stag stars stone stood Summer Princess sunlight sword Teutates thought told tower trees Venetian voice wall wine women words wounded youth Zebban