Posts Tagged ‘my mother’
Patterns: mortality
I originally started this blog to find out if there were larger patterns to the things I love. The tags don’t lie: there is a very consistent theme to almost all of my posts, and it’s mortality. Oof. I hadn’t quite expected that. I think of myself as an optimistic, forward-looking person. And all I seem [...]
Filed under: Childhood, Mother, World War II | Closed
Tags: childhood, family, flight, grandparents, legacy, loss, mortality, my mother, patterns
It is with profound joy
While we’re on Klemperer, I’d like to add a digression on the birth announcement of my mother, which appeared in January 1943. It read something like “With the most profound joy we would like to announce the birth of our daughter Brünnhilde. May she give birth to many courageous warriors. Munich, The Brown House.” The [...]
Filed under: Books, Germany, History, Linguistics, Mother, Third Reich, Victor Klemperer, World War II, Writers | Closed
Tags: 1943, birth announcements, Das Braune Haus, death announcements, family announcements, Lingua Tertii Imperii, LTI, Martin Bormann, my grandfather, my mother, The Brown House, Victor Klemperer
What is style?
Jean Genet There are many definitions of what style is. I’d like to add mine. Style is a response to injury – it’s a way of dealing with pain. Those that are truly stylish, and not merely fashionable or well turned out, are often those who grew up deprived of love or attention, who had [...]
Filed under: 1980s, Books, Childhood, Fashion designers, Germany, Mother, Writers, Youth | Closed
Tags: 1970s, adolescence, childhood, clothes, Jean Genet, my mother, Pain, style, Vivienne Westwood
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