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"Have a care that in being such, you do not beco on Wanda's little balcony in the ht A twofold roof is above us, first the green ceiling of cli-plants, and then the vault of heaven soith innu love-call of a cat rises fro on footstool at the feet ofher of e tendencies were distinctly marked in you?" asked Wanda

"Of course, I can't remember a time when I didn't have them Even in my cradle, so mother has told me, I was super sensual I scorned the healthy breast of oats' milk As a little boy I was mysteriously shy before women, which really was only an expression of an inordinate interest in theray arches and half-darknesses of the church, and actually afraid of the glittering altars and ies of the saints Secretly, however, I sneaked as to a secret joy to a plaster-Venus which stood in my father's little library I kneeled down before her, and to her I said the prayers I had been taught--the Paternoster, the Ave Maria, and the Credo

"Once at night I left ht and showed ht I prostrated myself before her and kissed her cold feet, as I had seen our peasants do when they kissed the feet of the dead Savior

"An irresistible yearning seized ot up and embraced the beautiful cold body and kissed the cold lips A deep shudder fell upon me and I fled, and later in a dreaoddess stood besideme with up-raised ary which promised to make the world of antiquity accessible to ods of Greece than with the religion of Jesus I ith Paris when he gave the fateful apple to Venus, I saw Troy burn, and followed Ulysses on his wanderings The prototypes of all that is beautiful sank deep into my soul, and consequently at the time when other boys are coarse and obscene, I displayed an insurar, unbeautiful