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Why am I always neighbour to those
who from anxiety force you to sing
and even to say: life is heavier
than the heaviness of the sum of things.

Oh dear

I am alive, have time to build; my blood is red for longer than the roses are.

Exquisite <3

Finished The Duino Elegies

"I am not sure that I should envy any historian who could honestly claim to have lived through the earth-shaking events of the past fifty years without some radical modifications of his outlook."

Hmmm

"Everything that went badly for the population and the economy and for the Revolution in general could be attributed to a single all-pervasive conspiracy led by a small group of “aristocrats,” manipulating events from within the royal court and perhaps including the queen, if not the king himself, and in secret coalition with France’s foreign enemies."

"...reports that soldiers, most of them German or Swiss mercenaries, had been pulled back from the French frontiers and were encircling both Paris and Versailles. From letter to letter, Colson’s estimations of the number of troops involved expanded from 6,000 to 40,000, to as many as 100,000. What was their purpose and would they soon invade the city?"

'...everyone cheered with abandon and cries of “long live the King!” after he had attached a tricolored cocarde to his coat and allowed the crowd to festoon the royal carriage with many more of the small colorful badges.'

Goblin Market is quite haunting and can be read in a variety of ways. It most resonated with me as a Gothic poem about the danger of falling for "bad boys" and the constancy of sisterly love, e.g. Laura and Marian from The Woman in White.

Enjoying the culture clash and building tension