Author: | E. F. Benson | ISBN: | 1230002942551 |
Publisher: | GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS | Publication: | November 28, 2018 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | E. F. Benson |
ISBN: | 1230002942551 |
Publisher: | GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS |
Publication: | November 28, 2018 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
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Synopsis:
I do not know whether in remote generations some trickle of Italian blood went to the making of that entity which I feel to be myself, or whether in some previous incarnation I enjoyed a Latin existence, nor do I greatly care: all that really concerns me is that the moment the train crawls out from its burrowings through the black roots of pine-scented mountains into the southern openings of the Alpine tunnels, I am conscious that I have come home. I greet the new heaven and the new earth, or, perhaps more accurately, the beloved old heaven and the beloved old earth; I hail the sun, and know that something within me has slept and dreamed and yearned while I lived up in the north, and wakes again now with the awakening of Brunnhilde....'
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
I do not know whether in remote generations some trickle of Italian blood went to the making of that entity which I feel to be myself, or whether in some previous incarnation I enjoyed a Latin existence, nor do I greatly care: all that really concerns me is that the moment the train crawls out from its burrowings through the black roots of pine-scented mountains into the southern openings of the Alpine tunnels, I am conscious that I have come home. I greet the new heaven and the new earth, or, perhaps more accurately, the beloved old heaven and the beloved old earth; I hail the sun, and know that something within me has slept and dreamed and yearned while I lived up in the north, and wakes again now with the awakening of Brunnhilde....'