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  • Jorge Volpi, in Em busca de Klingsor (translated as In Search of Klingsor, tells a story about physicists and mathematicians in the mid-XXth century and the search for Hitler's science adivisor, known only by his code name Klingsor (ob. cit.

    Archive 2008-05-01 enowning 2008

  • Jorge Volpi, in Em busca de Klingsor (translated as In Search of Klingsor, tells a story about physicists and mathematicians in the mid-XXth century and the search for Hitler's science adivisor, known only by his code name Klingsor (ob. cit.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • In "Love in a Bottle" the magician Klingsor cures Sir Lancelot of his love for Queen Guinevere, with unexpected – or, rather, expected – results the tone of jokily anachronistic Arthurianism, incidentally, anticipates TH White's The Once and Future King by some years.

    Love in a Bottle by Antal Szerb – review Nicholas Lezard 2010

  • A porno Klingsor--thank you very much for the compliment!

    DesignerBlog Will 2009

  • Anyway, whether a porno or a po-mo Klingsor, I still feel complimented.

    DesignerBlog Will 2009

  • Parsifal as Mad Max, Klingsor as Lord Humungus, Kundry as a feral hermaphrodite, the Flower Maidens as topless biker baybz.

    Gold stars and red pen Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Parsifal as Mad Max, Klingsor as Lord Humungus, Kundry as a feral hermaphrodite, the Flower Maidens as topless biker baybz.

    Hope, blood, Turandot Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Parsifal as Mad Max, Klingsor as Lord Humungus, Kundry as a feral hermaphrodite, the Flower Maidens as topless biker baybz.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I heard a Cupid-emblazoned German Klingsor gramophone playing Chaliapin and Caruso; Swiss music boxes that tinkled out ditties; and an Odessan street organ called a sharmanka (from the French charmant) that, when cranked, emitted a circus tune.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

  • I heard a Cupid-emblazoned German Klingsor gramophone playing Chaliapin and Caruso; Swiss music boxes that tinkled out ditties; and an Odessan street organ called a sharmanka (from the French charmant) that, when cranked, emitted a circus tune.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

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