#maria briggs

[elegantfelinity]

maria briggs' vicky , you'll always be famous ♡

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

Romanov family on Broadway: Tally Sessions as Tsar Nicholas (top left), Gail Bennett as Tsarina Alexandra (top right), Maria Briggs as Maria (middle left), Allison Walsh as Olga (middle right), Molly Rushing as Young Anastasia (bottom left), Delilah Rose Pellow as Alexei (bottom middle), and Kelli Youngman as Tatiana (bottom right)

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on love, even in death

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // Rainer Maria Rilke The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge // Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann // Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Roads," Crush // Keaton St James (@boykeats) Matthew 19:12 // Lana Del Rey Born to Die // @/alessia.trunfio (instagram) // Florence + the Machine I'm Not Calling You a Liar // Michael Cunningham The Hours // System of a Down Lovely Day // Richard Siken "Planet of Love," Crush

[alchemicalcodes]

Rainer Maria Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

[funeral]

I am learning to see. Why, I cannot say, but all things enter more deeply into me; nor do the impressions remain at the level where they used to cease. There is a place within me of which I knew nothing. Now all things tend that way. I do not know what happens there. [...] I have resolved to write no more letters. Why should I inform anyone of the changes within me? If I am changing, I no longer remain the person I was, and if I become someone else, it follows that I have no friends or acquaintances. And to write to strangers, to people who do not know me, is quite out of the question.

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

[dysphoresque]

“Ah, but where will you go from there, where? Your heart is driving you out of yourself, your heart is after you, and you are almost beside yourself and you can't go back. Like a beetle stepped on, you ooze out of yourself, and your little scrap of carapace and adaptability is meaningless.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

[dk-thrive]

Rilke viewed time as illusion, as paradox. In memory, in writing, “Everything is here. Everything forever.” Moments are eternal. How, Malte wonders, when we think of our childhood, do we “reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life”? And memories remembered unattach themselves from time: “The fact that they were past made them almost arise as future.”

— Elisa Gabbert, Any Person is the Only Self: Essays (FSG Originals, June 11, 2024)

[comicwaren]

From Superior Spider-Man Vol. 3 #006, “The Greater Good”

Art by Mark Bagley, John Dell, Andrew Hennessy and Edgar Delgado

Written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage

[aschenblumen]

La existencia de lo terrible en cada partícula de aire. Lo respiras con su transparencia; y se condensa en ti, se endurece, toma formas puntiagudas y geométricas entre tus órganos; pues todos los tormentos y todas las torturas llevadas a cabo en las plazas de ejecución, en las cámaras de tortura, en los manicomios, en las salas de operaciones, bajo los arcos de los puentes en el otro tardío: todo eso es una obstinada permanencia, subsiste y se aferra, celoso de cuanto existe, a su espantosa realidad. Los hombres querrían poder olvidar mucho; su sueño lima suavemente esos surcos del cerebro, pero los sueños lo rechazan y vuelven a trazar el dibujo. Y se despiertan, anhelantes, y dejan fundirse en la oscuridad el resplandor de una luz, y beben como agua azucarada esta media luz apenas calmante. Pues ¿en qué arista se sostiene esta seguridad? El menor movimiento, y ya la mirada se hunde más allá de las cosas conocidas y amigas, y el contorno, consolador un instante antes, se precisa como un reborde de terror.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Los cuadernos de Malte Laurids Brigge. Traducción de Francisco Ayala.

[elegantfelinity]

i don't know i'm starting to get a thing for broadway revival victorias

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

Romanov family on Broadway.

Clockwise: Delilah Rose Pellow as Alexei (bottom middle), Maria Briggs as Maria, Allison Walsh as Olga, Gail Bennett as Tsarina Alexandra, Tally Sessions as Tsar Nicholas, Kelli Youngman as Tatiana, and Molly Rushing as Young Anastasia

[just-existng]

enamour: to be filled with love for.

the notebooks of malte laurids brigge-rainer maria/work song- hozier/pinterset/wild spirit, soft heart- butterfly rising/j's lullaby-delaney bailey/elliot and oliver-call me by your name/from my notes app/j's lullaby-delaney bailey/francesca- hozier

[bracketsoffear]

Extinction: When The Wind Blows (Raymond Briggs) "Utilizing a cartoonish design, this graphic novel follows a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs, and their journey through surviving a nuclear attack on Britain launched by the Soviet Union. Throughout the story, we see this innocent, cheerful pair of lovely grandparents very slowly die from radiation poisoning, all the while they keep waiting for help to arrive, help that we as the reader already know is not coming. The book was mentioned in UK parliamentary discussions, and used to support unilateral disarmament."

Slaughter: All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque) ""I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . ."

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive."

[funeral]

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

[alchemicalcodes]

Rainer Maria Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

[dk-thrive]

We discover, indeed, that we do not know our part; we look for a mirror; we want to rub off the paint, to remove all that is artificial and become real. But somewhere a bit of mummery that we forget still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our lips are twisted. And thus we go about, a laughing-stock, a mere half-thing: neither real beings nor actors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin, June 4, 2009)