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While pornography treated flowers, emptiness remained as little as possible

Posted by Anne on August 27th, 2010

I’m doing what I never do, thinking about furniture and housewifey things, which is kind of a nice break. I’ve always liked art history, so I’m reading up on German design through the ages. The stinger so far was this online description of Biedermeier on a Russian website:
Biedermeier style, brought to the bourgeois world of [...]

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Kleiner, uralter Gott – Ancient little god

Posted by Anne on May 29th, 2010

In a week we’ll be burying my mother’s ashes on Drummond. We’ve decided to read some of her poems, with a translation into English. She published a volume of them in the Wilhelm Andermann Verlag in Vienna in 1944 when she was 21; a miracle, since paper was so rare towards the end of the [...]

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