How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
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)
Here's a tasty morsel from Aschenbach's stranger god dream in Chapter 5. As we discuss in "Symbols," this dreams has everything to do with the transformation of Aschenbach's infatuation with Tadzio from one that ostensibly has to do with the boy's beauty into one that is primal lust. The vision of the "stranger god's" revelers devouring raw flesh and engaging in "unbridled coupling" spares no expense in giving us the nitty-gritty of that transformation.