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The Plumed Serpent

Chapter 29: Transcriber’s note
By D. H. Lawrence
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A Western woman becomes drawn into a political-religious movement that seeks to revive ancient indigenous deities and rituals. Intellectual leaders and local organizers promote mass ceremonies, symbolic unions, and public demonstrations that fuse spiritual yearning with authoritarian politics. Personal relationships and private freedoms are reshaped by the collective fervor as ritual practice escalates into violent confrontation and institutional change. The narrative examines cultural identity, sexual and spiritual power, the allure of mythic revival, and the tension between individual autonomy and the demands of a mobilized, quasi-religious community.

Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Inconsistencies in hyphenation, spelling, and italicization have been standardized. Except for the errors listed below and the standardization, spelling has been retained as originally published.

The following printer errors has been changed:

Page 12: “fellow esconced between” “fellow ensconced between”
Page 22: “came owards Kate” “came towards Kate”
Page 31: “wih a dead laugh” “with a dead laugh”
Page 63: “herself from wordly” “herself from worldly”
Page 65: “carressive, speaking” “caressive, speaking”
Page 80: “off into banalties” “off into banalities”
Page 88: “Orilla is an hoted” “Orilla is an hotel”
Page 93: “little handfulls from the” “little handfuls from the”
Page 100: “thunder annd wings” “thunder and wings”
Page 102: “go with Quetzacoatl.” “go with Quetzalcoatl.”
Page 126: “a torquoise ornament” “a turquoise ornament”
Page 143: “streets aften ten” “streets after ten”
Page 146: “horrible, horrrible” “horrible, horrible”
Page 155: “head, stupified and” “head, stupefied and”
Page 169: “posteriors hutched up” “posteriors hunched up”
Page 193: “my eyes     twilight” “my eyes the twilight”
Page 210: “rest you head” “rest your head”
Page 216: “like a streeet lamp” “like a street lamp”
Page 256: “curiosly heavy with” “curiously heavy with”
Page 258: “Halálá! he said.” “Holálá! he said.”
Page 268: “One most disentangle” “One must disentangle”
Page 312: “Holà! You there!” “Holá! You there!”
Page 354: “Cipriona put over her” “Cipriano put over her”
Page 356: “acting an the helpless” “acting on the helpless”
Page 361: “stood a hugh dark figure” “stood a huge dark figure”
Page 390: “circling with sauve” “circling with suave”
Page 391: “ignominous drab uniform” “ignominious drab uniform”
Page 393: “black head aginst his” “black head against his”
Page 395: “living Hutzilopochtli” “living Huitzilopochtli”
Page 403: “began to     clear” “began to sing clear”
Page 414: “in the electric fl” “in the electric flow”
Page 423: “soft, senuous brutality” “soft, sensuous brutality”
Page 432: “same, whover was in” “same, whoever was in”