Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Pribislav


Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain (trans. John E. Woods):
The boy that Hans Castorp was talking to was named Hippe, Pribislav Hippe—and the remarkable thing was the r in his first name was pronounced like an sh: he called himself "Pshibislav." And that outlandish name did not fit badly with his looks, which were not ordinary at all, indeed were decidedly foreign. 

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