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  • lonely wives (1931)
    • A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
  • the philadelphia story (1940)
    • When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
  • stomry waters (1941)
    • A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
  • the palm beach story (1942)
    • A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adori...
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  • nibelungenlied by unknown, ~1200 ⚠
    • The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition of Germanic heroic legend that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries and that spread throughout almost all of Germanic-speaking Europe.
    • translations i've read are margaret armour's (1961) and arthur thomas hatto's (1964).
  • sarrasine by honore de balzac, 1830
    • Ernest-Jean Sarrasine is the main protagonist of the story. The story is a narration of his falling in love with Zambinella.
  • journey into the past by stefan zweig (orig. 1929; eng. 1976)
    • Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything - time, war, betrayal - can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from ...
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  • "I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way." - Vita Sackville-West, in a letter to Virginia Woolf
  • John 1:4-5 In ipso vita erat et vita erat lux hominum / et lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non conprehenderunt | In him was life and the life was the light of men / and light shineth in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it
  • the entries for february 2nd and 3rd from Franz Kafka's Diaries : The happiness of being with people. / There is a certain failing, a lack in me...
  • passages from Clarice Lispector's "The Hour of the Star" : G-d belongs to those who succeed in pinning Him down. / Because, however awful her situation might be, she has no wish to be deprived of herself. She wanted to be herself.
  • Passages fetched from Richard Einhorn's l...
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