...his shipmates. His penance is to wander the world, telling his story to those who need to hear it. Since then, at an uncertain hour. That agony returns:...till my ghastly tale is told. This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his...

...'Nightmare LIFE-IN-DEATH' (1.193). The mariner who murdered the albatross, the bird of life, confesses: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...till my ghastly tale is told. This heart within me burns. (582 ff.) The telling of the tale, then, is a necessity related to some desire called up by...

...synchronizing of his will with another kind of rhythm, over which he cannot exercise conscious control: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me bums. (ll. 582-585) The rupture with the continuum of the human/natural/divine is a permanent scar; the Mariner...

...by Levi's epigraph to The Drowned and the Saved, from Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. (11.582-85) Levi here identifies not with the innocent albatross but with its murderer, the...

...out that Levi is being anti-metaphorical in his use of Coleridge's lines from "The Ancient Mariner": Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. Notes <jne cajjs Levj's use of these lines "newly startling to a merely literary reader, to...

...outside himself that takes possession of him: Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then...till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. He has no conscious or rational control over either the manner of his telling or the matter...

...quotes the lines of the Ancient Mariner to the wedding guest in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns.51 So too does the memory of Buna-Monowitz burn within the heart of Primo Levi. But it is interesting...

...frontispage of The Drowned and the Saved, taken from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. Levi's heart burned brightly till, charred by the ashes "down there," it burned itself out....

...knows that whenever he repeats his story — a story of intense emotions — anguish assails him:22 Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. (VII, 582-85)14 The symmetrical nocturnal logic25 that aims for narcissistic omnipotence, the...

...hospitality. (Levi 1988 pp. 184-185) And what did Levi place as epigraph for his last book? These lines: Since then, at an uncertain hour that agony returns,...till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Perhaps this hints at the release needed to come about. The finishing....