"...it not infrequently happens that a race with sober, practical bourgeois traditions will towards the end of its days flare up in some form of art."
Thomas Mann, "Tristan," Stories of Three Decades
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"The ages end more quickly now
The transient world reforms itself
Unconstrained by the chemistry of the past."
The transient world reforms itself
Unconstrained by the chemistry of the past."
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