Vulgar words in Tentation de saint Antoine. English (Page 1)
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Itinerant vendors, porters, and ass-drivers rush to and fro, jostling against one another.
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And one of them points out to him, behind some tapestry, the body of a man with an ass's head.
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On the other walls of the apartment, medallions of polished brass represent heads of animals--that of an ox, of a lion, of an eagle, of a dog, and again, an ass's head!
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she sprang forth on her iron hoofs; she neighed like an ass; she galloped amongst the rocks.
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From time to time they got out of the way, in order to allow a long, covered chariot, drawn by oxen, to pass, or perhaps it is an ass jolting on his back a woman closely veiled, who also disappears in the direction of the huts.
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He hears the sound of castanets and cymbals, and, in the midst of a rustic crowd, men clad in white tunics, with red bands, lead out an ass, richly harnessed, his tail adorned with ribands and his hoofs painted.
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Silenus, at his side, is dangling upon an ass.