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Hermann Hesse (via liebesfraulein)

a few days in paris. buying too many books, pretty postcards and bookmarks.

[19-24.07.19]

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‘mystery of love’ by sufjan stevens but you’re picking flowers in your countryside backyard while your neighbor who you’re secretly in love with plays music you can hear through their open window. (headphones recommended) (youtube)

Firenze

1955-60

A group of people lying in a drunken heap in a living room, 1954. Photographed by Kurt Hutton.

Swan Lake, Stuttgart Ballet, c1954 (Madeline Winkler-Betzendahl)

Natural History Museum - March 2018

~ London ~

So peaceful Souvenir. A brother singing ancient Andalusian song in Al-hambra palace.

Unmute

The right amount of melancholy

This is one of my most favorite Andalusian muwashshahat (an Arabic poem that’s specifically written to be sung). It was written in the 3rd century by an Arab poet from Granada, so it’s not very far fetched that the song has been sung at some point in that very palace centuries ago. 

These are the lyrics in Arabic and English, in case anyone’s interested. 

When he appeared with a sway in his walk  My darling infatuated me with his beauty Oh, my fate and my confusion Who will have mercy when I complain Of anguish in love Except for the holder of beauty?

لما بدا يتثنى حبي جماله فتننا وعدي و يا حيرتي من لي رحيم شكوتي فى الحب من لوعتي إلا مليك الجمال

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Ronald W. Sousa, The Passion According to G.H.

— J. M. Barrie, 1922

Kitchen in a communal flat on Solyanka street in Moscow. Photo by Mikhail Dashevsky (1960s).

Photo by Ernst Haas, Italy, 1955