January 2011
“Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst.
Ah! Ich habe ihn geküsst, deinen Mund,
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– Salome - Richard Strauss
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Angel, oh angel, we’ll pray
for the last...
「 It was perfect 」
“How I wish we didn’t hate those years while we lived them.”
– Li-Young Lee (via ahuntersheart)
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Μήδεια φίλαι, δέδοκται τοὔργον ὡς τάχιστά μοι παῖδας κτανούσῃ τῆσδ᾽ ἀφορμᾶσθαι χθονός, καὶ μὴ σχολὴν ἄγουσαν ἐκδοῦναι τέκνα ἄλλῃ φονεῦσαι δυσμενεστέρᾳ χερί. πάντως σφ᾽ ἀνάγκη κατθανεῖν: ἐπεὶ δὲ χρή, ἡμεῖς κτενοῦμεν οἵπερ ἐξεφύσαμεν. ἀλλ᾽ εἶ᾽ ὁπλίζου, καρδία: τί μέλλομεν τὰ δεινὰ κἀναγκαῖα μὴ πράσσειν κακά; ἄγ᾽, ὦ τάλαινα χεὶρ ἐμή, λαβὲ ξίφος, λάβ᾽, ἕρπε πρὸς βαλβῖδα λυπηρὰν βίου, καὶ μὴ κακισθῇς...
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka (via liquidnight)
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Lisztomania or Liszt fever is a term used to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on April 25, 1844, discussing the 1844 Parisian concert season. The word is a portmanteau of “Liszt” and “mania”. Lisztomania was...
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Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Danza Macabra (Italian and Spanish), Dança da Morte (Portuguese), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one’s station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning...