Tony's review of Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
"For beauty ... make well! Only Beauty is at one and the same time divine and visible, and so it is indeed the sensuous lover's path ... it is the artist's path to the spirit, (from 'Death in Venice')." The pig had been released. The large wheel was exstinguished hiding behind it a partial view of the Church in Piazza San Marco. I felt the world close in on me, the pressing throng moving everywhere and nowhere all at once. An errant elbow landed between my shoulder blades. I collapsed -- pain pinching my nervous system, exquisite moving pain. I began to crawl. my hands stepped on, swollen and cracked before I managed to pull myself upright as the crowd began to disperse a little. Vaporetti and gondole filled on the horizon, a few still docked. The hitchcokian brids flying higher begininning their retreat into the night spiers as the sun fades over the horizon. I gazed at the boats and the expanse of water between Venice and the Lido. I breathed into my swollen fist...more
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