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durch die Geschichte hindurch seien stets Oden auf Knaben gedichtet worden, deren philisterhafte Umdeutung nur durch eine jahrtausendealte Prüderie zu erklären sei, und gerade die Durchbrechung dieses Umstandes habe sich Aueckens zum Ziele gemacht.
throughout history, odes to boys had been written, the Philistine reinterpretation of which could only be explained by a centuries-old prudery, and the very breach of this fact Aueckens had made his aim.
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