Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. Tacitus
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At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote:
"my travels have changed me." The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."
Owned by the Nature. x
Gustave Doré illustrations.
Oh to be a student in a haunted academy, your reading companions the ghosts of a glorious past
‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand’
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
"Even in the grave, all is not lost"
- Edgar Allan Poe
Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Keira Knightley, Jena Malone, Rosamund Pike, Joe Wright, Talulah Riley, and Carey Mulligan in Pride & Prejudice (2005)
@utopie-sempiternelle
Decorated pages from the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University
The library of Marienstatt cistercian monastery, Germany.
The library is considerably older than the current library building, constructed 1907-1909. It contains more than 100,000 volumes, of which 21,500 are considered historically important. Since 2017 the library is considered a nationally important cultural heritage.
Photos from the monastery webpage here.
the rain knows all my secrets
By Ekaterina Belinskaya
Story tells of her falling in love with the sea-god Glaucus, who prefers the nymph Scylla to her. In revenge, Circe poisoned the water where her rival bathed and turned her into a dreadful monster.
Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse
By the Deathbed (1893) by Edvard Munch
Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray, 2009
