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1N2D S4 ✰ right in the kokoro ↳ E75
1N2D S4 ✰ the most huggable boy! ↳ E1, 8, 10, 17, 46, 57, 58, 66
C Major Completely Pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naïvety, children’s talk.
C Minor Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key.
Db Major A leering key, degenerating into grief and rapture. It cannot laugh, but it can smile; it cannot howl, but it can at least grimace its crying.–Consequently only unusual characters and feelings can be brought out in this key.
C# Minor Penitential lamentation, intimate conversation with God, the friend and help-meet of life; sighs of disappointed friendship and love lie in its radius.
D Major The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
D Minor Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.
Eb Major
The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God.
D# Minor Feelings of the anxiety of the soul’s deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depression, of the most gloomy condition of the soul. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.
E Major Noisy shouts of joy, laughing pleasure and not yet complete, full delight lies in E Major.
E minor Naïve, womanly innocent declaration of love, lament without grumbling; sighs accompanied by few tears; this key speaks of the imminent hope of resolving in the pure happiness of C major.
F Major Complaisance & Calm.
F Minor
Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave.
F# Major Triumph over difficulty, free sigh of relief uttered when hurdles are surmounted; echo of a soul which has fiercely struggled and finally conquered lies in all uses of this key.
F# Minor A gloomy key: it tugs at passion as a dog biting a dress. Resentment and discontent are its language.
G Major Everything rustic, idyllic and lyrical, every calm and satisfied passion, every tender gratitude for true friendship and faithful love,–in a word every gentle and peaceful emotion of the heart is correctly expressed by this key.
G Minor Discontent, uneasiness, worry about a failed scheme; bad-tempered gnashing of teeth; in a word: resentment and dislike.
Ab Major Key of the grave. Death, grave, putrefaction, judgment, eternity lie in its radius.
Ab Minor Grumbler, heart squeezed until it suffocates; wailing lament, difficult struggle; in a word, the color of this key is everything struggling with difficulty.
A Major This key includes declarations of innocent love, satisfaction with one’s state of affairs; hope of seeing one’s beloved again when parting; youthful cheerfulness and trust in God.
A Minor Pious womanliness and tenderness of character.
Bb Major Cheerful love, clear conscience, hope aspiration for a better world.
Bb Minor A quaint creature, often dressed in the garment of night. It is somewhat surly and very seldom takes on a pleasant countenance. Mocking God and the world; discontented with itself and with everything; preparation for suicide sounds in this key.
B Major Strongly coloured, announcing wild passions, composed from the most glaring colours. Anger, rage, jealousy, fury, despair and every burden of the heart lies in its sphere.
B Minor This is as it were the key of patience, of calm awaiting ones’s fate and of submission to divine dispensation.
From Christian Schubart's Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806) translated by Rita Steblin in A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. UMI Research Press (1983).
My thoughts before I go to sleep. (via constant-nxthing)
Elisabeth Hewer, from “The Use of Tears,” Wishing for Birds (via perumbram)
“I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.”
When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner
Bruce Weigl, opening lines to “The Unknowns,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 29, no. 3, May/June 2000)
I’ll stop quoting him when I’m dead.
Text version: I live in a world that is completely seamless between the two. Fantasy is the real story. The world in which we live is structured from notions that are completely fabricated; your clothes, your wallet, that we all agree that pieces of paper are worth something. Geography is a complete fabrication. Where does Mexico start and America end? From space, nowhere. We agree to kill each other, to tax each other, to shame each other from notions that are complete fabrications. To me, those are harmful fantasies. Whereas my fantasies are liberating.
- Guillermo Del Toro on Reality and Fantasy
Peter Fischli & David Weiss, ‘Will Happiness Find Me?’, 1999
#me trying to explain literally anything
Carol Ann Duffy, from ‘Queen Herod’, The World’s Wife (via soracities)
More of the town that inspired Spirited Away.
Rain and Lights - Jiufen, Taiwan - February, 2015
The return of Nick’s Imaginary Camel - this time with bonus Ancient Egypt revelations <33333
24.11.17
