A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Romanticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romanticism. Show all posts
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Quote of the Day (E.T.A. Hoffmann, on Music, ‘The Most Romantic of All the Arts’)

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“Music… is the most romantic of all the arts—one might almost say, the only genuinely romantic one—for its sole subject is the infinit...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Quote of the Day (Dawn Powell, Defining Satire, Romanticism and Realism)

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“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”...
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I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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