Word: salome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salom Alarmed...
After two years at the university, Rilke tagged about Europe for a while with an old girl friend of Nietzsche's, Lou Andreas-Salomé. Then he settled down in an art colony in Worpswede, Germany, where he met and married Clara Westhoff, a handsome young sculptress. Suddenly the poet's constitutional melancholy grew acute. He had discovered that he could not keep a wife and a muse at the same time. The wife graciously bowed out; Rilke went off to Paris, where in 1905 he became private secretary to Sculptor Auguste Rodin...
...father, the headman, is willing to go along with this old unauthorized valley custom, but Salom is not. When the lovers escape together, they find themselves bedded down forever in a blizzard...
...Young Salom's questions about the valley were tempered with a hard-earned skepticism. He knew Tibet; his father had been killed there. But the persistent peddler's picture of the fabulous valley, "a place where you can belong," made him decide...
Four hard months later, Salom crossed the final range and got his first glimpse of the Valley of the Dreaming Phoenix. Picturesquely, it was all that the old peddler had said it would be, an awesome "spreading bowl of light and color." But peace and happiness were not so evident, and before the brief summer was out, Salom had learned from the valley's dozen herdsmen families a universal truth: jealousy, betrayal and moral corruption haunt even the most isolated...