Death in Venice Foreignness and "The Other" Quotes

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Quote #10

But the dreamer was now with them, within them: he belonged to the stranger god. Yes, they were now his own self as they hurled themselves upon the animals, lacerating them, slaughtering them, devouring gobbets of steaming flesh, as they dropped to the trampled mossy ground for unbridled coupling, an offering to the god. And his soul savored the debauchery and delirium of doom. (5.37)

Check out the way Aschenbach himself plays a role in the stranger god dream, becoming one of the revelers and realizing that "he belonged to the stranger god." Yep, this is one of the final examples of the way Aschenbach contains within himself the strange "otherness" that he keeps imagining and finding in those he encounters.