lacking anna

I've been way too overwhelmed with school and real life smacking me hard in the face to read my anna karenina....but at least my assigned reading has been of interest...

I've had to read Goethe's "Leiden des Jungen Werthers" (for the second time) and am now working my way through Faust, Teil 1. It's amazing to be reminded again of the beauty of the German language, thanks be to Goethe. ;)

"Es ist besser, ich sehe sie durch die Augen ihres Liebhabers; vielleicht erscheint sie mir vor meinen eignen Augen nicht o wie sie jetzt vor mir steht, und warum soll ich mir das schöne Bild verderben?"
-Werther

(there are also many many wonderfully beautiful lines from Werther, but it's all so depressing that I can't bear to post it here because I'm trying very hard to not let myself be depressing)

Dichter: So gib mir auch die Zeiten wieder,
Da ich noch selbst im Werden war,
Da sich ein Quell gedrängter Lieder
Ununtergebrochen neu gebar,
Da Nebel mir die Welt verhüllten,
 Die Knospe Wunder noch versprach,
Da ich die tausend Blumen brach,
Die alle Täler reichlich füllten.
Ich hatte nichts und doch genug,
Den Drang nach Wahrheit und die Lust am Trug.
Gib ungebändigt jene Triebe,
Das tiefe schmerzenvolle Glück,
Des Hasses Kraft, die Macht der Liebe,
Gib meine Jugend mir zurück!
(Faust, Zeile 184-197)

My professor also included some youtube links to particular productions of Faust, and I'm loving it. Best homework assignment ever.

Oh, to be at Wellesley, pouring myself into books of madness, suicide, deals with the devil, and pantheism!
-lab

Nightingale Aria

This is a video from recording sessions of the Musicians of Old Post Road Ensemble from May. This film was just released this past weekend, and my flute teacher Suzanne Stumpf sent it right to me. This year I am having a bit of fun taking some lessons on Baroque flute (similar to the flute she is playing) in addition to our modern flute lessons. Here is the text to the Nightingale Aria by Bononcini:

 From branch to branch flies

The nightingale, burning with passion.
He sings joyfully, and in his own language
It seems that he says: O sweet love,
Make it so that May never departs.

-luce

Thanks Adele, for breaking my heart again. "To make you feel my love" wasn't enough?

-lab

sometimes, you need to take a day off after 2 crazy weeks of life beginning all over again.

 

i would recommend a quick trip to provincetown, on cape cod. 

with a few friends, a guitar, and of course, gelato.

 and it doesn't hurt to pick the sunniest, most beautiful day of the week. 

especially after an entire week of torrential downpours (without an umbrella).

and even more so, when you spent the entire week facing about 15 ridiculously huge things going wrong.

It was a day for being glad that everything this week worked out.

and for reading an entire novel. 

(Kate Noble's latest and greatest, in my opinion)

<3 lucy

weekend update

I just found my prom queen tiara from the 11th grade, which I had given up for lost after the move to the new house in 12th grade. I just had a feeling that today was the day to go through all of the boxes in the attic.


oh, and last night Johnny B. introduced me to the wonder that is blastin' buffalo wing pringles.

that is all.

-luce

hannah&lucy

in boston. in the flesh. so much happiness---

-lab

window #1

-lab