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...sped across Germany, Lenin telegraphed orders to his lieutenants. In Stockholm, there was a hasty meeting with Red agents, and time to buy an overcoat and a pair of shoes. Next evening, at twilight, the train pulled into St. Petersburg's dingy Finland Station, and Lenin stepped to the platform, unsure whether he was to be welcomed or arrested...
...name. By last year, his offspring, most notably Citation, Armed and Iron Liege, had won the astounding total of $13,280,851. The magnificent old stallion is now 29, the equivalent of 145 in human years, and, with a mere eight foals this spring, in the twilight of his years. So is the dynasty. Bull Lea's sons have never matched their father's prowess as a sire...
...devil" and who believed that "man is full of misery and all earthly beauty is lustful and corrupt." Cheever's mother and her parents emigrated from England, and, he says, "there was a certain air of shabby gentility about the whole thing. I hate to speak about the twilight of Athenian Boston and all that, but Cousin Randall would play two Beethoven sonatas after dinner, and everyone would sit around and belch...
Pierre participates tentatively in all of these states. As he is not fully adult, the mature self-sacrificing love that Madeleine offers becomes repulsive to him. Yet the twilight world of Cybele's precocity--a world filled with latent sexuality, but where no real consummation is ever possible--draws him irresistably. (In Greeks mythology, love of the goddess Cybele demanded the same transmutation of erotic drives. Her male devotees emasculated themselves to achieve estatic unity with...
From Berenson, Sunset and Twilight...