Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Daily Dose

From Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann

SOLITUDE

"Solitude begets originality, bold and disconcerting beauty, poetry. But solitude can also beget perversity, disparity, the absurd and the forbidden."

Translated by Michael Henry Heim

4 comments:

  1. Are you talking to me? I don't see anybody else here. Who you talking to? To me?

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  2. Now, honey. Actually, I'd bet you could use a nice dose of "the forbidden," yes?

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  3. I AM a dose of the forbidden.

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  4. And a strong one, sweetpea. Honest. Yum.

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