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Juan Dahlmann is the main character of “The South.” After a head injury, Dahlmann is hospitalized. Upon his release, he travels to his villa in the South. On the way, he falls into a duel with strangers. He walks into the duel knowing that he will most likely die and that this is the most noble death he could have planned for himself.
Juan Dahlmann Quotes in Ficciones
The Ficciones quotes below are all either spoken by Juan Dahlmann or refer to Juan Dahlmann . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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17. The South
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They went out and if Dahlmann was without hope, he was also without fear. As he crossed the threshold, he felt that to die in a knife fight, under the open sky, and going forward to the attack would have been a liberation, a joy, and a festive occasion, on the first night in the sanitarium, when they stuck him with the needle. He felt that if he had been able to choose, then, or to dream his death, this would have been the death he would have chosen or dreamt.
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Juan Dahlmann Quotes in Ficciones
The Ficciones quotes below are all either spoken by Juan Dahlmann or refer to Juan Dahlmann . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
17. The South
Quotes
They went out and if Dahlmann was without hope, he was also without fear. As he crossed the threshold, he felt that to die in a knife fight, under the open sky, and going forward to the attack would have been a liberation, a joy, and a festive occasion, on the first night in the sanitarium, when they stuck him with the needle. He felt that if he had been able to choose, then, or to dream his death, this would have been the death he would have chosen or dreamt.
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