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goethe: "when a man begins to reflect upon his physical & moral being, he usually finds that he is sick"
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the world just hates a beautiful young man doing nothing in particular
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in his "new treatise on human understanding", leibniz uses the spread of tobacco smoking ("adopted by all peoples in less than a century") as an example that there are in men inborn & divine principles.
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coffee culture in the brazilian town of santos: very hot, without milk, but strongly sweetened; because the sugar opens up the finer acids & strengthens the aroma. drunk in small cups, it does not lead to issues with sleep. (from jünger)
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"country nightmares", wherein gordon ramsay has one week to fix a failed state, end any violent conflicts & establish a new government recognized by the population & the int. community. he'll probably be more successful than us foreign policy. also the insults will be better.
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jünger remarks that in a 19th-century travelogue on rural china he read about how the chinese would bind little, specifically prepared bambus-tubes to the feet of doves. in flight, these tubes would work like flutes & play certain melodies. the air always filled with music.
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on one day, it is said, balzac ate 100 oysters, 12 pork chops, a whole duck, a few partridges, and a sole meunière, all alone. presumably accompanied by several bottles of wine, & spirits.
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Felix Mendelssohn's study (mostly original furniture). Note the busts of Goethe and Bach.
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goethe: "of all peoples, the ancient greek dreamt the dream of life the most beautifully"
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the noble pursuits (chess, art history, classical philology, mathematics)
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jünger would periodically leave flowers on the grave of a local taxi-driver, georg riffenachs, that he liked talking to. the taxi-driver died in a car-accident one night in 1954; 12 years later, jünger "memorialized" him in his diary.
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Franz Liszt's house in Weimar; mostly original interior; note the portrait of Beethoven, on the desk Beethoven's death-mask.
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first they made non-alcoholic beer, now non-alcoholic gin. decaffeinated coffee. electric cars. vegan meat. synthetic wool. margarine. lifeless life. deathless death.
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in italy, germany, france, dueling with swords was more common than with pistols; in england, usa, russia, pistols were more common -- that's the true divide
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today, the 1st of november 2022, is the 50th anniversary of ezra pound's death.
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schlegel: "to live classically & to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology."
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anecdote: when titian, already an old man, was painting a portrait of charles v, he accidentally dropped his brush, whereupon, it is said, charles v, the mightiest man in the world, went to pick it up for him, unasked. thus we can say that even an emperor bowed before titian.
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a lot of the young men i call my friends on here seem quite lost & sad & bitter. "blackpilled" as the kids say. goethe says that you see in the world what you carry in your heart; there's a qu'ran verse that is quite similar, iqbal mentions that. enjoy some fresh air. cheers.
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recently, at work, a text i had written was criticised for having sentences that were "too long". apparently some people, even in an educated profession, struggle with reading sentences that contain multiple subclauses.
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relationships are all about warming the bed for eachother so you can sleep with an open window in winter
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goethe: "all that is reasonable has been thought before; our task is then to think it again."
vauvenargues: "a truly new & original work is one that familiarizes us with long-established truths."
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kant: "young man! deny yourself satisfaction (of lust, of longing, of love, etc), not with the stoic intention of complete abstainment, but with the delicate epicurean intention to have ever-increasing pleasure in the prospect of fulfillment."
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from frederick the great's anti-machiavel: "a few years ago a young englishman succumbed to the madness of killing himself so that he may never get sick. and so it is when a prince destroys his country to maintain the present state of affairs."
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c.d. friedrich, "monk by the sea", 1810; l. feininger, "bird-cloud", 1926:
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walking through gallery, brain fried (no sleep), see this one, turn to gf & go "look, the group chat"
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Recently, while travelling, I was reading the letters of Mozart. He expresses a sort of 18th-century liberty that is immensely charming, appealing: inconsistent spellings, cosmopolitan vocabulary, stage names, lots of travel, gambling, leisure, theatre. The best fruits of life.
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i'd say it did
Real question from ignorance: Did 9/11 produce any notable poetry?
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jünger: "i can say today [at age 100] that while the experience of war was important, it was very poor when compared to the wealth of experiences i made thanks to literature. even during the war, reading ariosto [...] was more captivating than the actual fighting."
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noteworthy people born august 15th: matthias claudius (poet), napoleon bonaparte (emperor), sir walter scott (novelist), thomas de quincey (opium-addict), isidor "unsung" unsinn (twitter-user).
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when curtius, the foremost scholar of medieval european literature & rhetoric, was asked how he became as erudite, etc, in the said field, he said, to paraphrase: "well, you do nothing, absolutely nothing but read for 10 or 20 years, then you can perhaps write a decent book."
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quick translation of a "rough sketch for a chronology" found in jünger's diaries:
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you can't spell "philology" without "lol". it's really all about having fun.
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parents are in berlin rn, visited graves of fichte, hegel, brecht, weigl
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old bookshop-owner who listens to classics radio & reads books on fra angelico all day is the most powerful person i know. old friend comes in & they talk about the quality of breadrolls in the neighbourhood. he always has great recommendations, has read every book. he made it.
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as seen today in the alte pinakothek in munich; el greco, titian, dürer, raffael:
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many are too young (ignorant) to make these big judgements on the quality of this or that literary work or thinker. but youth, this "drunkenness without wine" (goethe), is also for most the only age when they are passionate enough to care about these things at all.
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goethe & jünger share the same fundamental notion that life is about "collecting", be it knowledge, stones, friends, insects, experiences. they also share the idea that life is but one big confession that we shape & narrate ourselves: goethe's poetry & truth, jünger's diaries.
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jünger's diaries when he's in china go like "in the afternoon whiskey with mr. ching chong" (real).
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so piero della francesca pilled, so fra angelico pilled it's insane
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handke once, in a grand gesture of voiding criticism by referring to his "tradition", said "i come from homer & tolstoy". now, i don't care if it's a legal text i'm writing or not: i come from wieland, from goethe, from kleist, from thomas mann. long sentences are my birthright.
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Hölderlin: "Time is / Long, but the truth / Will come to pass."
Old Afghan saying: "You might have the watches, but we have the time."
(This tweet is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.)
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guys want nothing more than to be minor venetian noblemen in the early to mid 18th century (venice is the beautiful gambling den of europe's most educated men, the republic is in steady decline, tiepolo's pink in the clouds, canaletto's waves in the sea, last breaths..)
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when charles abdicated in 1556 & retired to the monastery san jeronimo de yuste, he insisted upon taking with him into seclusion four paintings by titian: la gloria, the mater dolorosa, a portrait of the empress isabella (charles' late wife), & the ecce homo:
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reading book from the 60s & the author mentions that over the course of his entire work, st. augustine uses the word "auctoritas" 1164 times; he had to count that himself, i think, by hand, for a one-sentence factoid in a chapter-introduction. scholarship.
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real "quality of life" is living within walking distance of a good used-book shop
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when people say things like "the world is as diverse as never before" they forget that in the last 200 years, 80% of bird-species went extinct; when people say "we live in multicultural societies like never before seen" they forget about every premodern empire. monotony.
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as a german, i have an inherent medical condition that can only be cured by visiting italy
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wiktionary amateur philology hour: a german word for "to think" (meinen) is related to the old term for "romantic love" (minne), both derived from the proto-germanic for "to remember" (minjō).
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St. Augustine says the "language" of God, i.e. when he speaks not to men but himself/for himself, is akin to all sounds & syllables resounding at once
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platen says that to truly face beauty is to become "useless to the world"; jünger says the glory of the poet in the mechanized age is his "uselessness".
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deleting 90% of tweets 2 mins after posting is the good & true way to post actually, it's like speech, fleeting
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charles v also, it is said, commented that he was alexander the great & titian was apelles, & just as only apelles had been allowed to make a portrait of alexander, so only titian was allowed to paint one of charles v.
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when the theology students got drunk they began talking about birds; now what did we history students from the other side of town know of birds? not much, but that was perhaps the best. we sat there, talking about birds, listening, yesterday's strangers now with arms entwined.
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engaging in the traditional practice of helping some random teenagers buy alcohol & cigarettes at the local supermarket on a friday night.
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see how the tweets get shorter, he refined this bit of trivia over a decade; he's a sculptor; moreover, we ought to remember pound: poetry is about condensing, stripping away the unnecessary. a single perfect line stands at the end. craftsmanship.
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jünger says that we must imagine the wine the ancient greeks drank -- after the "invasion of dionysus into the greek world" -- to have had similar effects as lsd or other drugs of that kind today.
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once we have killed all the birds, not even a God could save us
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according to local legend, when the benedictine monk dom perignon finally managed to invent champagne, he called out his monastic brothers: "brothers, tonight we will drink the stars!"
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in a way, i am like ovid in his pontic exile: in the provinces, far away from the places where things happen, "dead-to-the-world", too occupied with my insular life of study to have opinions on the "news".
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My copy of Goethe's Elective Affinities I bought used once belonged to a girl named Doris who read the book for school in 1996, she was in 12th grade, got really into the book & extensively annotated the margins in pretty handwriting. It's one of the most erotic objects I own.
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Jünger is the type of guy to write two pages about how technology devours all that is good because his peace was disturbed by the sound of his neighbour's lawnmower.
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back in the day, when you were sick you'd just travel to someplace beautiful & rest, let the subtle breeze of somewhere nice cure you, sea-air, salt-air, mountain-air, spas, the lido, spring-water, it's true
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i saw the best minds of my generation on the screen of my phone
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