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发帖数: 3872 | 1 They were not broad, the shoulders on which he thus carried the tasks
laid upon him by his talent; and since his aims were high, he stood in
great needs of discipline -- and discipline, after all, was
fortunately his inborn heritage on his father's side. At the age of
forty or fifty, and indeed during those younger years in which other men
live prodigally or dilettantishly, procrastinating the execution of
great plans, Aschenbach would begin his day early by dashing cold
water over his chest and |
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