Thread: Literary Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
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Old 07-23-2013, 08:13 AM   #43
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Thank you, Bookpossum. Now I remember why I'd rather read in the original language if possible.

And...if I were Buddenbrooks sr. I would prefer 'Snuckeltier', that has something of a cuddly teddybear about it, to 'the castrated ram', however sweetly said and meant.
Well, I suppose a teddybear is pretty sexless too!
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