December 2010
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when people compare their relationships to Romeo...
-courfeyrac:
I’m sorry did you ever read it
Everybody dies
ngl if we’re talking comparing shakespearean tragedies to relationships it’d probably be worse comparing it to hamlet.
Nah, I think I’d be a little more concerned if a couple called each other The Moor and lil’ Desdemona.
Probably recommend therapy, too.
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Stille Nacht, 1914
Theunauthorized Christmas Truce occurred only on certain parts along the Western Front, between French, British, and German armies. The idea sprouted after Pope Benedict XV vouched for peace between the warring factions, pleading “that the guns may fall silent at least upon the night the angels sang.”
Although the governments and the home front both spread the aggressive attitude of...
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Rome, an Empire of Slaves
In Ancient Roman, a soldier’s yearly income on average was 1,200 sesterces.
A slave cost roughly 6,200 sesterces.
In the expansion and conquest of the vast Roman Empire, a slave was more valuable than a soldier’s worth.
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Radical, Extremist, Fundamental, Religous...
My Little Rant on Fundamentalist Christians
When do men take offense and violence in defence of their faith? When they are struggling still with believing it themselves. They protect an art they are afraid will fall through. The power of God is as easily threatened as a man’s curses can stop the sun, so it’s almost insulting if you can possibly think a TV Show poses a threat to The...
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Recommend any good History Blogs?
I’m not following enough of them, & none on The Directory are up my alley.
Which are your favorites?
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Saints, patronages, calendars: Saint Frances... →
fuckyeahsaints:
One of thirteen children raised on a farm. She received a convent education, and training as a teacher. She tried to join the order at age 18, but poor health prevented her taking the veil. A priest asked her to teach at a girl’s school, the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadagono, Italy, which…
There’s a Mother Cabrini Shrine in the foothills of the Rockies...
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The Immolation of Love
Only he who forswears love’s power, only he who forfeits love’s delight, only he can attain the power to fashion the gold into a ring. [and writhe all power from the gods]
Then we are secure and free from care, for everything that lives wants love: no one will reject love. -Wagner, Das Rhinegold, Ac. I Sc. I
The poetry of Wanger’s apocolyptic Der Ring Des Nibelungen strikes me...
Woke up at 8 and ruined everything in advance. The...
“When the soul speaks, alas, it is no longer the soul that speaks.”
– Friedrich Schiller
(Image by Joseph Cornell)
Les Mis Quotes Used & Cross-reference
(to acompany prior post)
The sunshine was enchanting: the branches of the trees had that gentle tremor of May that seems to come from the birds’ nests more than from the wind. A hardy little bird, probably in love, was desperately singing away in a tall tree. (p. 302)
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of...
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Love Indomitable
Under the enchanted sunshine, that unshakable force that trembles the earth is the tremor of May, coming from the hardy bird’s songs of Love, the supreme happiness for all Life. That is why only could a god have hoped to asume supreme divinty is if that “God is Love.” Without love, that enchanted sun could burn no more in the forgetfulness of everything else....
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I know, I’m being kind of emotional, and trust me, on this blog you wont be seeing much of that. It’s just I was finally ready to tell her that I’ll be there in anyway I can to help her raise her child when he comes. And I wanted to. I was already starting to love that guy, he’s not even mine. He’s due tomorrow.
I spent the past three months preparing to be a father....
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strolling along riverside streets in the snow all...
looking for carnations in the storefronts.
I realize this blog has been a phantom for the past 5 days. Lifes been a ride lately. I murdered Wagner’s Valkyries Wednesday night in a paranoid suicide and now Tchaikovsky’s betrayed me. I was to treat a lovely Belle to one of his ballets to make up for the tragedy Die Walkure was never written to be, but the ‘Redemption by Love...
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I Never Realized How Much of a...
My library moved the Classics section around months ago, and I’m still a little huffy about it.
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Reading Wishlist
The Tale of Tinúviel,
JRR Tolkien (from The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, a Journey Through Yugoslavia, Rebecca West
Art & Revolution, an essay; Richard Wagner
On Heroics, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, an essay; Thomas Carlyle
The Maid of Orleans, a play; Friedrich Schiller
Poetry of Friedrich Schiller
Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon
Works of Thomas...
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War of the Romantics
The War of the Romantics was a schism between prominent musical composers of the second half of the 19th century. It pitted two schools of romantic musical thought— The Leipzieg Conservatives, headed by composers Johannes Brahms, Clara Schuman amoung others, and backed by the Leipzig Conservatoire. They were opposed by the radical progressives of Wiemar, represented mostly by Franz...
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“What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first...”
– Franz Liszt, program note to Les Préludes (via laurenioe)
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A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man
Since I’ve gotten a new surge of followers these last few weeks, I felt I’d introduce you newcomers to a little about myself. I’m Eric, I’m 19.I’m a bit of a writer, but not much. I’m obviously a big history buff and literature nerd, which you probably guessed. Currently failing out of college because my studies always seem to get in the way of school....
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“For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is...”
– Thomas Mann
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River Drina Runs Red of Wars Past
The River Drina, boardering Serbia with Bosnia & Herzegovina, still reliquishes the dead and butchered of the Bosnian War (1992-95) and other wars the waters have not forgotten.
“Sing, sing, Drina, tell the generations, How we fought bravely. The front sang, the battle was fought. Near cold water, Blood was flowing…” Ominously goes the Serbian nationalist song from Wold...
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Romance in the Trenches
Winter was his favorite season. For in the shoveled snowbanks around his house, his adolesent figure atleast had the illussion of being amongst the trenches of the Great War, which even his grandfathers were too young to wittness. Given of course, the town sidewalks lined with snow were certianly narrower than a drudged, fortified trench he would have seen at Verdun, but he was a lad to bear...
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