Then I woke up. With all these troubles, I still thought a great deal about Cain and Abel, but much less about Demian.
It was, strangely enough, in a dream that he first came in contact with me again.
I dreamed once more, of assault and ill-treatment which I suffered, but instead of Kromer, this time it was Demian who knelt upon me.
And, what was quite new and profoundly impressive, everything that I suffered resistingly and in torment at the hands of Kromer,
I suffered willingly from Demian, with a feeling which was composed as much of joy as of fear.
I had this dream twice, then Kromer occupied his old position in my thoughts.
For a long time I have not been able to separate what I experienced in these dreams from what I underwent in reality.
But in any case my evil relation with Kromer took its course, and was by no means at an end,
when I had at last, by petty thefts, paid the boy the sum owed.
No, for now he knew of these thefts, as he always asked me where the money came from, and I was more in his hands than ever.
He frequently threatened to tell my father everything,
and my terror then was scarcely as great as the profound regret that I had not myself done that in the beginning.
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