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A Man and His Dog

A Man and His Dog
Thomas MannOriginal title Herr und Hund, Ein Idyll (German, 1919)
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“The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.”

Thomas Mann book A Man and His Dog

Herr und Hund (A Man and his Dog) (1918)

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“Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.”

Thomas Mann book A Man and His Dog

Herr und Hund (A Man and his Dog) (1918)

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“He is no longer with me—by my orders—but then that is merel the carrying-out of an order, after all a kind of negative being-with-me, as he would say. As for any independent life which Bashan might lead without me during these hours—that is not to be thought of.”

Thomas Mann book A Man and His Dog

Herr und Hund (A Man and his Dog) (1918)

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