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unwilling complicity
This is quite grotesque. It was written by Slavoj Zizek, an it is part of a discussion on distinguishing true emotion form the false, and true dignity,that elusive chalice, from the pre-digested, packaged clutter of modern life, known as kitsch. … Continue reading
grey tones: before the law
…show an unmistakable love of death — a romance with death, indeed, a seduction by death, in which life seems beside the point. The vacuum of feeling. The vacuum of void, of loss, of death. Lifelessness. A broken will to … Continue reading
ROMANA GOETHE & EROTICA FAUSTINA
”Goethe’s writings are among the most unabashedly autobiographical in world literature. They are so frank and utterly open as to carry well beyond the reality of objective events into the much more intimately real imaginative world. That may be why … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelica Kauffmann, Bridge markland, Carl August Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, Friedrich Schiller, German Literature, Goethe, Goethe Erotica Romana, Goethe Faustina, Goethe in Rome, Goethe Roman Elegies, Johann Joseph Schmeller, Karl Bruillov, Lewis Lapham, Voltaire, W. Tishbein
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