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deat ler. traits and colors o an impersonal moter Niklauss madonnas poion t seemed unsurpassable to Goldmund, one day, e t, , most c ant transformation and gro, eac, eac it and fass traits. to be able to make visible some day to represent any specific tself, times ; often it appeared in
t o express, except t ed it to simate relationsasy to pain and death.
Goldmund learned a great deal in tsman; occasionally, beside ry modeling successful , seductive figure of little Julie, Lydias sister. ter praised t did not fulfill Goldmunds in metal; oo unce and o become its godfatarted atue of Narcissus, in raying tle Joed to include to execute and on ants e some time, leaving touco ter.
Goldmund tatue of Narcissus. ime off track, and distracted and grumpy over at . Joures came to meet of ter and greater purity, ion and y. During t of time. Again t, ligal feeling in o o be guided by anding ting an image of s o step out of ting transitions of life, to express the pure image of his being.
times felt rue art came about. ters unforgettable madonna ed in ter again and again on many a Sunday. tatues airs in ters foyer o being in t, sacred manner. And one day t ot e suc, sucial images, untainted by y. But it t ed: pretty, delig mastery, t lovers, t of coainly, but not sacred, not true images of t only by Niklaus and oters—, in spite of tsmans playto t in , in ist can put sucty t of delig of ambition and dissipation.
time, ist in order