Gustav Mahler by Emil Orlik. 7-7-1860

Now listening Gustav Mahler, Sixth Symphony in a minor. m.youtube.com/watch?v=goXH3N…

Reading some FREDRICH NIETZCHE this morning.

Leighton is far superior to anything the machine could ever produce: For the human soul has wings And on them shall aspire To near the godly fire By whose bright flames each soul sings.

Happy birthday Mr Bernstein! medium.com/@antonvictorpr…

Happy birthday to the Swan King! 🦢

Go(o)d will vanquish evil… …in the end.

Excellent contemporary interpretation of a modern architect's work. If there is ever anything as l’esprit du temps reflected in the works of artists as opposed to creating art that is intended for a world beyond them, these buildings epitomise — indeed! — the boomer's world.

The Aureus Press When the woman he supposedly threw down a flight of stairs had passed away and he was thus relieved of the regular payments he had had to make to her, Schopenhauer wrote in his diary: “obiit anus, abiit onus” (the crone has died, the burden is lifted).

Automutilation

And his wife copied it all out for him in a more legible hand…

This reader should try Poe. Flows along in the most unobstructed of fashions.

Such books must not be “flexed” but hidden in the remotest corners of one’s house. Their possession should bring shame upon your family for four generations hence. In the end, better simply not to purchase them at all.

Schopenhauer noted we live in the worst of all possible worlds. But the balance is delicate. If the course of the sun would deviate by a fraction. Life would not exist on earth. So is interfering into the natural order of things wise? Man knows not even what will happen tomorrow.

“Der Lerm aber ist die impertinenteste aller Unterbrechungen, da er sogar unsere eigenen Gedanken unterbricht, ja, zerbricht. Wo jedoch nichts zu unterbrechen ist, da wird er freilich nicht sonderlich empfunden werden.” ~ Schopenhauer