“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Berlin looked so beautiful -- clean, orderly, gracious, urbane in 1900.
A great treat to see the way a civilized city looked before the ravages of MODERNITY took over!
What a poignant reminder of all we have lost -- or thrown away -- because of the emergence of rotten-but-seductive ideologies dreamt up by evil geniuses implemented by demented-but-charismatic leaders.
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Berlin looked so beautiful -- clean, orderly, gracious, urbane in 1900.
A great treat to see the way a civilized city looked before the ravages of MODERNITY took over!
What a poignant reminder of all we have lost -- or thrown away -- because of the emergence of rotten-but-seductive ideologies dreamt up by evil geniuses implemented by demented-but-charismatic leaders.
Seams surreal, doesn't it?
Yo would enjoy this too, I'm sure, FJ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPgbIK002us
Moscow in the Winter of 1908 accompanied by Borodin's tone poem "From the Steppes of Central Asia"
I shall post this evocative footage, myself, soon.
Surreal? Perhaps, but my primary reaction was, "Isn't it a mercy that we cannot tell what lies ahead?"
If any of us knew the future, few would be able to summon enough courage to bother to live at all.
Wow. I didn't realize how "civilized" life in Russia was back then. It could have as easily been Paris.
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