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The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Mann

Dietmar Herz THOMAS MANN by Ronald Hayman Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 618 THOMAS MANN: EROS AND LITERATURE by Anthony Heilbut Macmillan, 120, pp. 618 F rom time to time Thomas Mann......

Snake In Autumn

A lithe fat flash of light below the compost Reveals his coils, flesh swollen, slowly writhing In warm October leaves. One eye is blind. A wound along his body weeps with pus. I......