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R: 0 / I: 0I was overcome by a feeling of invulnerability. We might be crushed, but surely we could not be conquered.
Storm of Steel - Ernst Juenger
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>A l'alta fantasia qui mancò possa;
>ma già volgeva il mio disio e il velle,
>sì come rota ch’igualmente è mossa,
>l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
>Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, 142-45
>Here my exalted vision lost its power.
>But now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving
>with an even motion, were turning with
>the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars.
>高翔的神思，至此再无力上攀；
>不过这时候，吾愿吾志，已经
>见旋于大爱，像匀转之轮一般；
>那大爱，回太阳啊动群星。
>A l'alta fantasia qui mancò possa;
>ma già volgeva il mio disio e il velle,
>sì come rota ch’igualmente è mossa,
>l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
>Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, 142-45
>Here my exalted vision lost its power.
>But now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving
>with an even motion, were turning with
>the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars.
>高翔的神思，至此再无力上攀；
>不过这时候，吾愿吾志，已经
>见旋于大爱，像匀转之轮一般；
>那大爱，回太阳啊动群星。
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His views on women in this novel seem to be completely the same as Weininger's concepts, at least with a similar temperament. But this reveals (perhaps exactly the author, but not only the protagonist in the novel) an obviously high libido for women, not hatred.
My favorite part is … the revelation of the relationship between the woman and the musician, and the intermittent intervention of the protagonist with strong jealousy. Amazing writing. So one of the forms of true love (though it's fleeting and uncertain) is revealed here.
I think Tolstoy himself might often resented Sophia's lack of ability. When a man finds out that his wife can only give birth, or do the housework, or transcribe (his works) - she has nothing else to do - he will only be disappointed.
Btw the immediate escape of the musician guy is classic. I like this moment.
Kreutzer Sonata Variations
My first time read Tolstoy. His writings were really much more agonizing than I thought.His views on women in this novel seem to be completely the same as Weininger's concepts, at least with a similar temperament. But this reveals (perhaps exactly the author, but not only the protagonist in the novel) an obviously high libido for women, not hatred.
My favorite part is … the revelation of the relationship between the woman and the musician, and the intermittent intervention of the protagonist with strong jealousy. Amazing writing. So one of the forms of true love (though it's fleeting and uncertain) is revealed here.
I think Tolstoy himself might often resented Sophia's lack of ability. When a man finds out that his wife can only give birth, or do the housework, or transcribe (his works) - she has nothing else to do - he will only be disappointed.
Btw the immediate escape of the musician guy is classic. I like this moment.
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>… One should not place the kind of spirituality within Novalis, on the same level as what Goethe had. Goethe came to it through a regulated, out of a Higher World directed course towards an initiation, up to a particular stage. Novalis, by contrast, lived a life which one can best describe by saying: This young man, who left the physical plane at the age of twenty nine and who gave the German intellectuals more than a hundred thousand others could give, he lived a life which was actually a memory of a previous one. Through a quite specific event the spiritual experiences of earlier incarnations appeared, presented themselves to his soul and flowed in gentle, rhythmically woven poems from his soul.
>Rudolf Steiner
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship or Heinrich von Ofterdingen
These two books are the key to unlocking the dispute of Schelling-Fichte, corresponding to the conflict between groups of Goethe & Jung, and the group of poets/naturalists led by Novalis.>… One should not place the kind of spirituality within Novalis, on the same level as what Goethe had. Goethe came to it through a regulated, out of a Higher World directed course towards an initiation, up to a particular stage. Novalis, by contrast, lived a life which one can best describe by saying: This young man, who left the physical plane at the age of twenty nine and who gave the German intellectuals more than a hundred thousand others could give, he lived a life which was actually a memory of a previous one. Through a quite specific event the spiritual experiences of earlier incarnations appeared, presented themselves to his soul and flowed in gentle, rhythmically woven poems from his soul.
>Rudolf Steiner