The GolemGollancz, 1928 - 288 Seiten |
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Aaron Wassertrum Angelina asked Athanasius Pernath began beneath blood book Ibbur breath Brieslander Cabbala Charousek corner Council House curious d'you dark door dream ears earth everything eyes face father feel felt fingers gaoler Garmin gaze Ghetto Golem groped gulden Hahnpassgasse hair hand Handsome Jack happened hare-lip head hear heard heart hermaphrodite Herr Pernath Jaromir Jewish Jewish quarter kind knew Laponder laugh letter light lips listened living Loisa Loisitschek's looked marionette Master Pernath mean mind miracle Miriam murder never night once Pagad pawnbroker Pig and Whistle precious stones prison Prokop realised Rosina round Savioli Schemajah Hillel seemed shook sleep smile soul sound stand steps stood strange street suddenly surely talk Tarok tell there's thing thought told took turned utter voice waiting wall Wassory whole window words Zottmann Zwakh وو
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Seite 71 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourished!, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Seite 22 - All of a sudden I was sitting down, without my cloak, without my hat, at my own table. I — I — Athanasius Pernath. Terror took me by the throat ; my heart beat fit to burst. Those ghostly fingers, groping in the crevices of my brain, had ceased their fumbling, yet still, deep down in my innermost consciousness, I could feel the cold contact of their touch. I knew now who the stranger was, and that at any moment I could feel his personality within me at my will ; yet still was I unable to conjure...
Seite 44 - ... for I realised how, for the space of a heart-beat, I must have endured a paralytic shock from surprise. " I have given the subject much thought, and the nearest I can get to the truth of it seems to be this : that once in every generation a spiritual disturbance zigzags, like a flash of lightning, right through the Ghetto, taking possession of the souls of the living to some end we know not of, and rising in the form of a wraith that appears to our senses in the guise of a human entity that once,...
Seite 51 - ... that I was in a house containing a certain room the door of which was locked to me . . . the painful inability of my memory to function where associations of my youth were concerned ... all these problems had suddenly achieved their terrible solution : I had been mad, and treated by hypnosis. They had, in short, locked up a room which communicated with certain chambers in my brain ; they had made me into an exile in the midst of the life that surrounded me.
Seite 71 - Hear and understand. The man who sought you out, and whom you call the Golem, signifies the awakening of the soul through the innermost life of the spirit. Each thing that earth contains is nothing more than an 1
Seite 149 - And, however much the type changed, it was always the same formation of skull that rose forth from its grave ; heads with smooth hair parted down the middle, heads with curly hair cut short, heads with long perukes and flowing ringlets . . . century after century lined up before me, till the features, bit by bit, became more and more familiar, culminating at long last in one hideous countenance — the face of the Golem, and none other ! With that my chain of forebears broke off short.
Seite 26 - And, as that same Golem stiffened into clay the instant that mysterious phrase was removed from its lips, so must, I thought, these humans dwindle to soulless entities so soon as was extinguished within them some slightest spark of an idea, some species of dumb striving, however irrelevant, already deteriorated with most of them, from the look of it, into a mere aimless sloth, or a dull waiting for they know not what.
Seite 22 - It was his way of walking! Yes, it was! Yes, it was! I knew now for certain that he was like that. My unfamiliar face was now clean shaven, with prominent cheek-bones, my eyes were slanting.
Seite 7 - I only know that my body lies sleeping in its bed, while my mind, no longer part of it, goes forth on its wanderings. " Who am I ? " That is the question I am suddenly beset with a desire to ask ; but at the same instant do I become conscious of the fact that I no longer possess any organ to whom this query might be addressed ; added to which...
Seite 117 - I once more turned my attention to the precious stone upon my table. The preliminary wax model I had made of Miriam's face should really look a thing of beauty when cut into that radiant moonstone, palely blue. I rejoiced thereat ; it was a piece of rare good fortune, my finding something so eminently fitting amongst my stock of stones. The deep-black...