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 cyclus, says Jason:

Another vibrant instance, in "Well Dem Der Lügt" expresses well the immediate personal attraction between two men, and the subjection of one to the other, often part of the chemistry of their first intimacy:

The same mystery of immediate, unreasoning sympathy between two human souls, before acquaintance knits their attachment, is admirably put by Grillparzer in these lines:

Allusion to the military romances of Alexander von Sternberg has been made in an earlier chapter. But the homosexual soldier was only one type treated by Sternberg. He was a voluminous writer in his field, and what with his imagination and his use of historical personages he made a sort of portraitgallery of homosexualism. He was born at Reval, in