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 45
... voice that , issuing from a pit of corruption , lulled all that heard it . They fell silent , there in the flamy dark under the brooding stones in warm moonshine , metal glinting on dark blue . ' Many days ' journey towards the sea ...
... voice that , issuing from a pit of corruption , lulled all that heard it . They fell silent , there in the flamy dark under the brooding stones in warm moonshine , metal glinting on dark blue . ' Many days ' journey towards the sea ...
Page 92
... voice was not unusually loud but very clear , reaching me without effort , caressing the open - mouthed multitude , tender though not sickly , the tune antique sounding , angular , insistent , never quite fixed , gliding around a half ...
... voice was not unusually loud but very clear , reaching me without effort , caressing the open - mouthed multitude , tender though not sickly , the tune antique sounding , angular , insistent , never quite fixed , gliding around a half ...
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... voice flattened . ' They hunt , they cure , and they go away . ' Could he mean himself ? I was puzzled , until I remembered Gawain . Never having heard him speak for so long , so confidingly , I did not dare interrupt . - ' There is a ...
... voice flattened . ' They hunt , they cure , and they go away . ' Could he mean himself ? I was puzzled , until I remembered Gawain . Never having heard him speak for so long , so confidingly , I did not dare interrupt . - ' There is a ...
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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