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
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4 comments:

  1. RichardDecember 3, 2009 at 4:50 PM

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

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  2. usedbuyer 2.0December 3, 2009 at 9:45 PM

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

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  3. RichardDecember 4, 2009 at 9:27 AM

    I AM a dose of the forbidden.

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  4. usedbuyer 2.0December 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    And a strong one, sweetpea. Honest. Yum.

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