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i was reading something on www.hberlioz.com about berlioz's views on bellini's the capulets and the montagues opera and im crying this is so funny

like he was so excited to hear it

and the instant next thing he writes is:

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Kleine Zusammenfassung an Briefen, die Humboldt an Wegener geschrieben hat. 

Den 12ten Junius.

Deinen letzten Brief vom 29ten vorigen Monaths habe ich in Tegel erhalten. Wo ich mich den ganzen Sonnabend und Sonntag aufzuhalten und mit der offenen Natur, mit Botanik, Mineralogie und höchstens mit dem Lesen eines Italiänischen Dichters zu beschäftigen pflege. Meine Begierde einmal wieder etwas von einem Menschen zu hören, mit dem ich in dem engsten Bunde akademischer Freundschaft drei volle, glückliche Monathe verlebt hatte, diese Begierde, sag‘ ich, war aufs äußerste gestiegen. Schon fing ich an, unwillig zu werden, nicht über Dich, mein Bester! nein, dazu bist Du meinem Herzen zu theuer! Aber über das widrige Schiksal wurde ich unwillig, das so weit von einander entfernte, was durch Aehnlichkeit in Neigungen, Gefühl, Denkart, kurz in jeder Modifikation des Ichs, so nahe neben einander zu gehören, so ganz für einander geschaffen zu sein schien. Dein Brief erschien und verminderte meinen Kummer. Ich las ihn mit dem innigsten Vergnügen. Denn alles was von, über, mit, wegen, durch und um Dich ist hat Interesse für mich und Freundschaftsbezeugungen, wenn sie die Sprache des Herzens sind, verlieren den Reiz der Neuheit nie. Sie sind vielmehr wie der Wein, der mit den Jahren immer angenehmer und köstlicher wird.

Berlin, den 26ten Junius

Ich glaube, bester Bruder, Deinen Wunsch, Dir meine Meinung über Widerlegung der Wunder mitzutheilen, nun hinlänglich erfüllt zu haben. Innigst leid thut es mir, dies nicht früher und vollständiger gethan zu haben. Aber Mangel an Muße und häufige Unterbrechungen sind Schuld daran. Möchtest Du wenigstens aus diesem geringfügigen Versuche überzeugt werden, wie gern ich jede Gelegenheit nuze, der Freundschaft ein kleines Opfer zu bringen! […] Doch diese Erfüllung meiner heißesten Wünsche scheint mir noch aufbehalten zu sein. Hoffen macht oft glücklicher als das Erlagen, aber wenn der Besiz so süß, als der Besiz eines solchen Freundes, ist dann ist das Erlangen dem Hoffen, der Genuß der Erwartung vorzuziehen.

In der zweiten Meßwoche komme ich nach Frankfurth. Ich schwebe zwischen Furcht und Hoffnung; daß Dich die schöne Jahrszeit reizen möchte, nach Hause zu reisen. Zwischen dem Befehl eines alten Vaters und dem Wunsch eines Freundes ist freilich keine Wahl. Thue was Dir möglich ist. Denn ich brenne vor Begierde, Dich, liebster, bester Wegener, einmal wieder zu umarmen. Grüße den lieben Mezner, Herzberg, Bertam und den guten Keverberg, und schreibe mir so bald als möglich.                                          Humboldt, der jüngere.

Bester Bruder,

Dein letzter Brief, den ich so eben, vor ein Paar Stunden, empfange, hat in mir sehr gemischte Empfindungen erwekt, die, wie die Aestethiker sagen, freilich die angenehmsten sind. Innigst gefreut hat mich die harmonische Sehnsucht, einen für ein Herz, wie das Deinige, nur zu lange abwesenden Freund einmal wieder zu umarmen; gefreut die Dienstfertigkeit mit der Du mit auf mein verzögertes Schreiben so schnell antwortest. Aber wie traurig, lieber Wegener, ist nicht auf der anderen Seite die in mir erregte Besorgniß, Dich, ohne den die ganze Reise für mich den größten Theil ihres Werthes verliert, Dich vielleicht nicht zu sehen! Aber es ist nicht genug zu klagen, sondern man muß arbeiten, den Klagen abzuhelfen. […] Ich füge keine Bitten hinzu, denn Du weißt wie sehr ich Dich liebe. […]

Berlin, den 3ten Julius 1788      Ganz der Deine, A Humboldt.

Berlin, den 12ten August 1788.

Liebster, bester Bruder,

Dein Brief hat mir, ohne Hyperbel, ein unaussprechliches Vergnügen gemacht! Gestern Abend erhielt ich ihn. Engel war eben bei uns. Daher konnte ich ihn nur flüchtig durchlaufen, um meine lange Sehnsucht nach einem Dinge, das Dein heißt, wenigstens vorläufig zu befriedigen. Heute morgen las ich ihn noch einmal. O, lieber Bruder, unsere Sprache ist doch reich genug, da sie in wenigen Zeilen (und wenn hat die Freundschaft deren genug?) so viele süßes und liebes zusammendrängen, ein so schönes Organ schöner Empfindungen werden kann! Du fürchtest ich würde Deinen Entschuldigungen nicht glauben? Wer solchen Versicherungen nicht trauen wollte, der müßte warlich ein schwärzeres Herz haben, als der der sie erlügen könnte, der müßte ja, wie Luzian sagt, kein Herz sondern eine Gurke im Busen tragen. […] Die Übel bleiben dieselben; aber die Ursachen werden so mannigfaltig, der Haß auf so viele Gegenstände zugleich und doch so unbestimmt und schwankend geleitet, daß daraus eine glückliche Toleranz entspringt. Wenn doch alle Menschen so dächten! Aber das war mal wieder intolerant. – […]

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[…] Wie herzlich ich mich gefreut über den glücklichen Ausgang Deiner Disputation, darf ich Dir, mein Bester, der Du mich und meine warme, innige Liebe zu Dir kennst, nicht erst sagen. Wenn ein solcher Streit im Grunde auch nur ein bloßes Spiel ist, so ist man anfangs doch wohl etwas dabei beklommen. […] Schreibe mir bald, lieber, bester Bruder, und glaube daß Dich wenige Menschen so herzlich lieben, als Dein                                                     Alexander Humboldt. 

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rb to take prev to the aquarium

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“For I changed and changed; was Hamlet, was Shelley, was the hero, whose name I now forget, of a novel by Dostoevsky; was for a whole term, incredibly, Napoleon; but was Byron chiefly.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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french revolution dashboard simulator

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uh actually man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their beating hearts. hope this helps.

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Hold up. Okay. Actually, fuck this. This sort of violent rhetoric should not be tolerated on here. Do you seriously think this sort of thing is going to make the nobility give you more rights???? You must be out of your minds! Reported.

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reblog to devour this guy's beating heart

#username checks out lmao #politics #everybody point and laugh #common adp w

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update: new canto out now!!! go check it out 😈😏🥀 (remember don't like don't read <3)

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@centuriesandskies this you?? not such a great look for a convention rep ngl

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listen. I wrote this a long time ago, before I went into serious politics. the account is deactivated for a reason.

I was twenty. I did poorly. I can do better.

#sj.txt #if this is the worst dirt you can dig up on me #i'm way less corrupt than half the people in the convention these days #at least i'm not doing fucking. embezzlement. #also sacredhostreceipts if you're who i think you are #don't you have better things to do rn?

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why the fuck is everyone tagging this with french??? political figures?

#what the hell is going on over there #also maybe cool it with the death threats #I don't want this blog to get taken down #what's a girondin #is this some joke I'm not french enough to understand #showdown update

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Unpopular opinion but why is everyone so up in arms about the new Civil Oath? Literally all it's asking is for you to promise not to commit treason just because the Pope tells you to? I can see where people are coming from with the whole violation-of-religion deal, but can you blame the Assembly for trying to make sure the people aren't forcibly subjugated by the wealth of the nobility?

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Sounds like something a heretic would say. To betray the Pope and king is to betray the will of God and your eternal soul! You should pray for forgiveness and pledge loyalty to the monarchy or have fun burning in hell. Sorry not sorry.

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L + ratio + iirc the Bible says "it is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" (Matthew 19:24)

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occasional based catholic moment, go off OP!

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looked the faith-first-always guy's blog, he's like a massive anti-huguenot too 🙄 why is it always the prot-exclusive radical catholics smh

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LMAOOOOO HE DEACTIVATED

#religion tag #percs fuck off #anyways op makes a valid point #reblog #percs dni

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she committee on my safety til I can't go public

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I don't understand the joke, can someone explain please?? 🙂 Thank you!

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is that fucking MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE?!!?!?!?

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oh my god citizen robespierre I'm so sorry this was not meant to break containment lol I didn't even know you were on this site please forget you saw this

#this is the most embarassing moment of my life #literally sobbing rn #the original post is /j i prommy #i cannot be known as the citizen who had to explain this to the government

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fabre d'eglantine is NOT your poor little meow meow citizens he literally falsified decrees from the national convention and embezzled money to line his own pockets. I don't care how uwu babygirl you think he is he is a CRIMINAL who should be ARRESTED

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#baguette #loaf #croissant #i-give-people-bread #indulgentsfuckoff #silly

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fucking fed up with the constant threat of the swiss guard, I think it's time we got some gunpowder and weapons and took things into our own hands yknow what I'm saying

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I'm no longer joking about this btw

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update:

hopital

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ok bc I've gotten like 50 asks about this: I am not injured and I am not in need of medical care. the punchline was that we stormed the fucking hotel des invalides to get guns and powder. didn't want to clarify the joke before now for security reasons but everyone knows about that and the bastille thing by now. please direct your money to people who actually need it.

#shouldve clarified the last post was /j #however I assumed yall knew this joke already #anyways #revolution #personal #500 #1k

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got so high at the festivial 2day i thnk i saw hte suapreme being

#robespiere speech was prboably 🔥 #unforntuately i camt rember any of it #grainposting #oipum ehre is somtehing else thes days #memes

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incredible speech from @springtimeofgovernment today at the jacobin club. nobody should be permitted to use their positions as civic leaders to commit crimes against the people, even under the guise of revolutionary fervor. if it comes to it, I too will drink the hemlock with him. for france. 🤝🤝

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Thanks for your support, @jldavid-real

The situation over here is deteriorating really quickly, the representatives are getting violent and abandoning due process entirely. Anything you can do to stand with us now would be very appreciated. You do a lot of great work for the revolution, and I trust you completely.

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@jldavid-real are you still there? We could really use your help right now.

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boosting @springtimeofgovernment here, can confirm he's been injured in a skirmish at the hotel de ville, they're passing summary death sentences without trial, @jldavid-real where is the help you promised us??? the people of paris are our only hope now.

edit: of course he moved blogs. coward.

#sj.txt #disappointed yet unsurprised #marat would be ashamed of you #9 thermidor #update

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DNI if you support any of these groups/people or their actions: m0narchists, f3uillants, br1ssotins/g1rondins, th3rmidorians, b0napart1sts, h3nri du v3rgier (also goes by c0mte de r0chjacquelin), charl0tte c0rday, or lafay3tte

(h3bertists and dant0nists you're on thin ice. behave.)

#censored so they dont show up in the tags #dni #get your nasty ass ideologies off my page #won't hesitate to block and/or report any violators #pinned

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reblog to make the directoire choke to death on their stupid fucking outfits

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hey staff. yeah you. where did this blog go?? notfishgoujon and prairial-95 are gone as well?? cowards too afraid to show your faces lmao especially after the fucking mess the directoire's made of the country. bet you anything that staff are on their fucking payroll too iykwim at least the republic didn't tolerate fucking bribery

#this site's gone to the dogs since thermidor yr 2 #following the trend of the rest of the country tbh #i'll probably get nuked for posting this #if so i'm not making a new account #i'll just make a paleocities or smth #politics tag #reblog #don't play with me ik full well gb didn't delete his blog of his own free will #they also zero note glitched it #just when you think they can't stoop lower

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it's been 50 fucking years since gracchus-babeuf (and the other CoE blogs) were deleted without warning and still no response from staff, the govt, or anything. the site's gone through a fuckton of ownership changes and still nothing.

we're working on a bit of a project (some of you might know abt it already), it's gonna be out prob in the next year or so. remember '89. remember '93 and '94. remember '97.

the people will rise again. it's only a matter of time. 🚩

-mod karl

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in the club suffering a sea change into something rich and strange

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Caravel Vera Cruz- Cadiz 2012

Photo © Richard Sibley

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narcissus and goldmund - hermann hesse

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Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

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Delighted to share the news that Kurt Hensel was Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's grandson with someone else who appreciates the work of both! I am very fond of Kurt Hensel's bookplate, which shows his love of music as well as mathematics:

(note the elliptic curve on the paper to the left of the violin!) And yes, German academia was a small world back in the day, and the Mendelssohn family was particularly well-connected: you may already know that Fanny and Felix's younger sister Rebecka married Dirichlet, and their cousin Ottilie married Kummer. And extending the family tradition, one of Kurt Hensel's grandsons, Walter Hayman, also became a mathematician, after leaving Germany for England at age 12 to escape the Nazis. He had a pretty remarkable life (his autobiography is on my to-read list, but it's not available as an e-book, so I will actually have to go to the university library to get it...): among his many accomplishments, he helped his wife Margaret found the British Mathematical Olympiad and send the first British team to the International Math Olympiad. And one of Walter's daughters, Sheila Hayman, became a filmmaker, and directed two films about her family: I still haven't seen Fanny: the Other Mendelssohn, but her earlier film Mendelssohn, the Nazis, and Me covers her family history and the impact of the Nazis in a moving way.

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I’ve been doing some field work with geologists this winter and I’m kind of amazed by how these dudes can pick up a handful of dirt and talk about it for an hour using terms I’ve never heard of. Like wow you see a whole universe in there that I don’t. The world is truly full of beauty and we only comprehend a fraction of it.

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Opalised dinosaur femur. Registration no. P 208014.

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Early modern tumblr historians is this a Beeldenstorm joke

In my translation so far I have

This is Posa in 3.10, responding to Phillip's accusation:

And I thought it was fine. But today one of my Profs. was explaining the reasons for the development of the KHM in Vienna, including the fear among Catholic/Habsburg nobles that precious religious art would be destroyed by iconoclastic Protestants—that all this Northern Renaissance art just wouldn't be safe somewhere like Flanders.

So far I've translated it in a less-literal way to emphasize the interpersonal dynamic between Posa and Phillip in the scene, but if this is a reference to that movement, the materiality of the painting and the upset become a lot more necessary. Posa would be saying: I'm not a Protestant, but my ideal is something else entirely. It's beautiful and fragile like an icon, and shutting down my dissent because you're scared of what it represents would be a very Protestant thing for you to do. But go on I dare you

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I ain’t afraid of no goats.

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For the first time in millennia, a Magan Boat sails off the coast of Abu Dhabi. It’s a reconstruction that has taught the world much about the skill and achievements of Bronze Age sailors

Archaeology on Marawah Island, west of Abu Dhabi, has revealed that 8,000 years ago the Arabian coast was home to a sophisticated seafaring people. They built stone structures, herded livestock, fished and dived for pearls, crafted jewelry, and developed a talent for sailing that started a remarkable cultural exchange.

By the Bronze Age, around 4,500 years ago, the region was prominent enough to have a name in ancient writings: Magan. From the island of Umm an-Nar, in modern Abu Dhabi which was part of ancient Magan, merchants sailed an international trade route that connected Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, to the Indus Valley in today’s India and Pakistan. Magan traded locally sourced pearls, stone and copper, one of the most sought-after commodities of the time, for ceramics, fabrics, jewelry, and other precious objects. Its ships were renowned through the Arabian Gulf.

The ship was built using 15 tons of locally sourced reeds that were painstakingly prepared by being soaked, stripped of leaves, crushed, and then tied into bundles using rope made from date palm fibers. These formed the hull, to which was attached a wooden frame. The boat’s dimensions were calculated based on what is known about similar vessels as well as hydrostatic analysis of what was needed to make it float. The reed hull was then waterproofed with a coating of bitumen, which was traded from Iraq. The heavy sail, raised purely by muscle without the benefit of pulleys, was crafted of goat’s hair in a patchwork of shades.

The result was the world’s largest ever reconstructed Bronze Age vessel: 60 feet long, capable of carrying 36 tons of cargo, and achieving surprisingly high speeds of 5.6 knots.

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Romantic Composers and their resemblance to popular Chinese dishes

For Chinese speakers: original Chinese ver. under the cut