From honey to ashes

Translated from the French Du miel aux cendres by John and Doreen Weightman, Librairie Plon, c1966.

Towards Harmony. Part One The Dry and the Damp. 1. The dialogue between honey and tobacco. 2. The arid beast. 3. The story of the girl mad about honey, her base seducer and her timid husband. a. In the Chaco. b. In the steppes of Central Brazil. Part Two The Feast of the Frog. 1. Variations 1, 2, 3. 2. Variatios 4, 5, 6. Part Three Summer in Lent. 1. Starry night. 2. Noises in the forest. 3. The return of the Bird-Nester. Part Four The instruments of darkness. 1. Din and stench. 2. The harmony of the spheres

'The present work, the second in a series devoted to the study of myths, continues the inquiry which was begun in The Raw and the Cooked.'

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