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schiller (1759-1805): “humanity has lost its dignity; but art has rescued it & preserved it in significant stone.” 🇨🇦
the only surviving shot from the soviet film “ivan the terrible, part 3” by sergei eisenstein. it was commissioned by stalin in the 1940s, who admired the first part and disliked the second one so immensely that he banned it. one of the great lost movies.
Blanche Sweet in Judith of Bethulia (1914), recreating the biblical story of Judith slaying the Assyrian general Holofernes
Fun fact: Audrey is one of the only Anglo-Saxon names that still exists. It’s from Old English Æðelþryð, which meant “noble strength.”
audrey hepburn photographed by milton greene for ‘gigi’ in 1951
Schopenhauer on the suitability of a man's character to a particular period of life:
Ferma zhivotnykh [Animal Farm] - samizdat of the Russian translation, Moscow, late '70s. 116 pages of typescript, with a hand-labeled title on the front board. Orwell's satire was, for obvious reasons, both banned throughout the Soviet bloc and extremely sought after in samizdat.
Can someone explain why Mireille Mathieu - as opposed to, say, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, or even Edith Piaf - became so popular in the USSR? How did she, of all people, become the Soviet cult figure of chanson française?
Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent is up there with Elem Klimov's Come and See in the horrifying war film stakes.
The Ascent (1977) Director: Larisa Shepitko
A remarkable place. Old Carthusian monastery, La Cartuja de los Fuentes, Huesca: paintings by Goya's brother-in-law friar. Occupied by militia, Durruti column +communist graffiti. Soviet T26 tank track marks on tiles. Then, Condor Legion. Dust of time everywhere.
Saône-et-Loire, France. Cluny Abbey. Only a fraction of this once gigantic abbey remains, it must have been incredible. The largest church in Christendom until Saint Peter’s was constructed. When man built with stone the architecture is timeless. Invites Wanderers from all over…
Certainly willing to be corrected by someone who knows more than I, but Karaite judaism strikes me as the Jewish version of Protestantism (specifically a sola scriptura bent)
10 years ago the world´s last beguine died in Kortrijk, Belgium. Marcella Pattyn´s death meant a piece of religious world heritage was no more. She lived at the Béguinage of St Elisabeth in Kortrijk, founded by Countess Joanna of Flanders in 1238.
“God is my being, my me... I will have nothing to do with a love that would be for God or in God. I cannot bear the word for or the word in, because they denote something that may be in between God and me.” Catherine of Genoa, a beguine, precisely rehearsing Christian nondualism.
Isn't it incredible to think that at the same time the Brothers Grimm were collecting their fairy tales that authors like Goethe, Schiller, Novalis & E.T.A. Hoffmann were writing?
How Ceasar felt about Alexander I feel about Goethe Goethe was only 24 when he wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther Schiller was only 20 when he wrote The Robbers I weep
The struggle between Hesse's "don't force yourself to read something that doesn't bring you joy" & Schiller's "you have to force yourself to develop good taste if it doesn't come naturally" --
when Rilke said that he found loving “as a male” to be inhuman, wild, and malicious, and when he said that within men there is a kind of motherhood … i wonder what this could have meant …
It is of vital importance that you read Goethe/Hölderlin, Rilke/George, Trakl/Benn, Celan/Bobrowski.
Why is Goethe completely ignored in modern schooling? I was never required to read him in high school or college and only heard of him in passing reference. Legitimately life altering stuff.
Heine, on his deathbed, supposedly: "Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his job."