#HappyNewYear ππ₯³π #ClassicMusic #MediciTV #Concert #NewYearsConcert #ViennaPhilharmonic #JohannStrauss #RadetzkyMarch
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Our sole remaining task is to describe the district captainβs final days. They slipped by virtually like one day. Time flowed past him, a broad, even river, murmuring monotonously.
Epilogue
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(completed)
βFather,β Carl Joseph began. βIβm leaving the army.β
[β¦]
βAfter this disaster,β said the father, βthat struck us two days ago, such an act amounts to . . . to . . . desertion.β
βThe whole army has deserted,β Carl Joseph replied.
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And so Herr von Trotta seemed like some character from a province that was historically rather than geographically remote, like a ghost from the Fatherlandβs past, the embodied pang of a patriotic conscience.
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. . . and gradually the lieutenant saw all the somber events of his life fitting together in a somber mosaic as if manipulated by some powerful, hateful, invisible wire puller who was intent on destroying him.
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I have a #Roth24 question: does the father know that his son Carl Joseph was having an affair with Frau Slama? (Iβm on the page where he says to Carl Joseph βit appears you have a soft heartβ). #Radetzkymarch
Iβm not too far in, but itβs so far all about a family of extremely rigid & emotionally stunted men, but I think Roth is making it clear that the society theyβre in is to blame for that. Women (so far) are either marginal or distractions. #Roth24 #Radetzkymarsch #Radetzkymarch
Herr von Trotta resembled a virtuoso in whom the fire has died, whose soul has become empty and hollow, and whose fingers strike the right notes only with cold, seasoned precision thanks to their own dead memory.
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Yes, thus began what he called βlifeβ and what may have been life at that time: driving in a smooth carriage amid the dense perfumes of mellow spring, next to a woman who loved you.
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All processes in nature and all events of everyday life suddenly achieved an ominous and incomprehensible meaning. Incomprehensible was the whispering chorus of crickets, incomprehensible the twinkling of the stars, incomprehensible the velvety blue of the night . . .
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Yes, Death was coming to old Jacques like a vivacious girl in spring, and Jacques opened his old mouth and showed Death his sparse yellow teeth. He lifted his hand, pointed to the window, and, still giggling, shook his head.
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But Lieutenant Trotta, more sensitive than his comrades, sadder than they, his soul constantly echoing with the dark, roaring wings of Death, which he had already encountered twiceβ
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It was as if a swift magical hand had washed the tinge of youth from Carl Josephβs face.
[β¦]
He felt he had to do something extraordinary now, but nothing extraordinary could be found far and wide.
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His thoughts drifted, blind and incoherent, along confused trails through the blind fog. He knew nothing.
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Y con la #RadetzkyMarch del #NewYearsConcert me acuerdo de #Lennon : "...los de arriba q agiten sus joyas..." :-D