Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become whole again, I can never go back. All these things he has given me. Better than my supposed mother and father ever could. For that, I owe him my life and allegiance.
Melika Dannese HickTag: secrets vampires venice secret-knowledge revelations corcitura hybrid-vampires stefan-belododia stefan-ratliff eric-bradburry shocking-secrets vampires-in-venice
Venise à la qualité de disparaître en un instant,de ne pas courir derrière le train avec des clins d’œil à gauche et à droite comme le font d’autres villes, mais de sombrer aussitôt, comme si elle n’existait pas, comme si elle n’avait jamais existé.
Nina BerberovaPortia we can admire because, having seen her leave her Earthly Paradise to do a good deed in this world (one notices, incidentally, that in this world she appears in disguise), we know that she is aware of her wealth as a moral responsibility, but the other inhabitants of Belmont, Bassanio, Gratiano, Lorenzo and Jessica, for all their beauty and charm, appear as frivolous members of a leisure class, whose carefree life is parasitic upon the labors of others, including usurers. When we learn that Jessica has spent fourscore ducats of her father’s money in an evening and bought a monkey with her mother’s ring, we cannot take this as a comic punishment for Shylock’s sin of avarice; her behavior seems rather an example of the opposite sin of conspicuous waste. Then, with the example in our minds of self-sacrificing love as displayed by Antonio, while we can enjoy the verbal felicity of the love duet between Lorenzo and Jessica, we cannot help noticing that the pairs of lovers they recall, Troilus and Cressida, Aeneas and Dido, Jason and Medea, are none of them examples of self-sacrifice or fidelity. […] Belmont would like to believe that men and women are either good or bad by nature, but Antonio and Shylock remind us that this is an illusion; in the real world, no hatred is totally without justification, no love totally innocent.
W.H. AudenTag: venice jessica portia shylock belmont
Il y a, à Venise, trois lieux magiques et secrets : l'un dans la "rue de l'amour des amis", le deuxième près du "pont des merveilles" et le troisième dans le "sentier des marranes", près de San Geremia, dans le vieux ghetto. Quand les Vénitiens - parfois ce sont les Maltais - sont fatigués des autorités, ils vont dans ces lieux secrets et, ouvrant les portes au fond de ces cours, ils s'en vont pour toujours vers des pays merveilleux et vers d'autres histoires...
Hugo PrattTag: venice
Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who happened to use vampirism to get what he desired. Some remnant of his mesmerism was still upon me. I had never been able to shake the feeling that he was tucked away in a corner of my mind, that he could read my thoughts, know what I was thinking. He had done something to me, but what that was, I had never been able to discover. All I knew was that the feeling had been with me since the morning I woke up and found myself in Venice.
Melika Dannese HickTag: disillusionment marked vampires vampirism venice mesmerism corcitura vladec-salei eric-bradburry fears-for-sanity
Could any State on Earth Immortall be,
Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd,
Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed;
Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure,
Nor any Forren mixtures can endure;
Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face
Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace,
Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize
But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes:
Those following Leaves display, if well observed,
How she long Her Maydenhead preserved,
How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell;
Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel,
Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree,
Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie.
Tag: poetry sea metaphor mythology venus venice spqr
Kad započnu priče o vjetrovima nema im kraja. Ne govori se samo o onima koji pušu u okolici, nego i drugdje, nadaleko. Stanovnici ih dočekuju na razne načine, prepoznaju ih i slute, nagovješćuju, tumače, spore se oko njih. Poznaju - ili vjeruju da poznaju - ne samo njihovu narav i ćudi, smjer ili snagu, nego i težinu im, čak i zapreminu, prepoznaju njihovu huku, miris, dodir, “boju i same oblike” (prenosim riječi i rečenice koje je maločas izgovorio Zane). Kolika je doista težina vjetra i kakva mu je zapremina, što je njegova snaga i u čemu je praznina, miriše li i koje je boje, zašto huči ili ječi, kako dodiruje okolne predmete i čime to čini - o tome svjedoče pamćenja i ispovijedi. Od toga ponekad i nastaju priče.
Ima li i vjetar sjenu ? - jedni postavljaju takva pitanja, drugi ih smatraju neumjesnima. Oblike vjetra odaju povijene grane masline i bora, polegli buseni i trsovi, povaljano šiblje i trska - u njima su njegovi otisci : igre, figure, bjesovi. Svemu što mu se nađe na putu vjetar oduzima ili pridaje neke vlastite boje - boje vjetra koje se ne naziru prostim okom. Pokupi i raznese sjeme i cvat brnistre, rute i ruzmarina, oduzme ili preda okolici mirise kadulje, sljeza, lavande i svega što zatekne unaokolo, na kopnu ili površini mora, u samoj Laguni. Zemlja i pijesak se pod njegovim naletom povuku i ogole, stijene i zidovi se udube i ogule. Burama i tramontanama nisu odoljele ni prošlost ni povijest Venecije.
Tag: venice
Bienvenidos a mi barco pirata. Vamos rumbo a Venecia, a cazar vampiros.
Sofía NavarroTag: welcome vampire pirate ship venice twitter vampiros barco bienvenida caza pirata piratas romanticismo vampiro venecia venezia
It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening.
Marina FioratoTag: architecture bubonic-plague venice historical-romance-fiction medical-history
Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world.
Alexander Lernet-HoleniaTag: romance venice magical-realism
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