(It's still Autumn in some places because of Climate Change, even though Winter is officially here....)
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By Rainer Maria Rilke [Translated by Mary Kinzie]
After the summer's yield, Lord, it is time to let your shadow lengthen on the sundials and in the pastures let the rough winds fly.
As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness. Direct on them two days of warmer light to hale them golden toward their term, and harry the last few drops of sweetness through the wine.
Whoever's homeless now, will build no shelter; who lives alone will live indefinitely so, waking up to read a little, draft long letters, and, along the city's avenues, fitfully wander, when the wild leaves loosen.
. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke(4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German:[ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets".[1] He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose.[2] Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical".[3][4] His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.en.wikipedia.org/…
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke(4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German:[ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets".[1] He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose.[2] Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical".[3][4] His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.en.wikipedia.org/…
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Ebenezer Scrooge's hallucinations caused by hypothermia? Dickens’ old miser’s delirium may down to a combination of undernutrition and severe cold Ebenezer Scrooge may not have been as weatherproof as he thought. The bitter winter is described vividly in A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge maintains just a low fire to warm himself in his room and eats only gruel. Dickens tells us “he carried his own low temperature always about with him”. www.theguardian.com/...
Ebenezer Scrooge's hallucinations caused by hypothermia?
Dickens’ old miser’s delirium may down to a combination of undernutrition and severe cold
Ebenezer Scrooge may not have been as weatherproof as he thought. The bitter winter is described vividly in A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge maintains just a low fire to warm himself in his room and eats only gruel. Dickens tells us “he carried his own low temperature always about with him”. www.theguardian.com/...
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Plato.
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