But now love is so much better
And Lord knows if my words don't come together
Just listen to the melody
Cause my love is in there
[Hook]
Just listen to the melody (x3)
Baby Mick Jenkins – To The Melody
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Odin, the foremost god.
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Something of an obvious choice, but this book may actually get less love than it deserves. This is partly due to its length: at least 1300 pages in most editions, the last hundred or so of which take a sudden turn, abandoning plot and characters, and are instead used to explore Tolstoy’s philosophical and historical ideas. Despite this, it is a true must-read, for its epic scale, moments of poignance, and unmatched commentary on war and history. I liken to it to an enormous and magnificent mansion, but one provided with a multitude of small and intimate nooks and crannies in which to take shelter.
A strange book, based on the late 18th century idea of the “affinity”, meaning predestined soulmate. In this book, people elect their affinities. Also strangely, a lot of it is people talking about and executing landscaping. However, the love thread is strong, if tangled, and this book is Romanticism at its best.
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This passage reflects on the stupidity of suicide, and how it shows cowardice. Peart rejects the romanticization of suicide in works such as Goethes Sorrows of Young Werther, which led to a rash of suicides among young men after it became a bestseller.
Just a note that there was not a “rash” of actual suicides after the publishing of Sorrows of Young Werther, though there was concern that there would be.