Avesta word for "praise-song" (Bartholomae: "Lobgesang"); that word is not actually attested in any text. The surviving texts of the Avesta, as they exist today, derive from a single master copy produced by Sasanian Empire-era (224–651 CE) collation and recension. That master copy, now lost, is known as the 'Sassanian archetype'. The oldest surviving manuscript ("K1") of an Avestan language text is dated 1323 CE. Summaries of the various Avesta texts found in the 9th/10th century texts of Zoroastrian tradition suggest that a significant portion of the literature in the Avestan language has been lost. Only about one-quarter of the Avestan
The Sacred Fount the Screw" and "In the Cage", which also feature unnamed and imaginative protagonists. In Chapter 21 of Donna Leon's third Guido Brunetti detective novel, "Dressed for Death" (1994; aka "The Anonymous Venetian"), Paola tells Guido, "I'm reading the master. "The Sacred Fount" is wonderful. "Nothing" happens, absolutely nothing." Later in the conversation, she states: "I'm already eager to finish it so that I can begin it all over again immediately." The Sacred Fount The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the