“Der Tod und das Mädchen” (“Death and the Maiden”), etching 1510 by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Collection the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ quartet dated 1826, was inspired by the Dürer etching and Matthias Claudius's poem "Der Tod und das Madchen"
THE MAIDEN
Pass by, ah, pass by!
Away, cruel Death!
I am still young; leave me, dear one
and do not touch me.
DEATH
Give me your hand, you lovely, tender creature.
I am your friend, and come not to chastise.
Be of good courage. I am not cruel;
you shall sleep softly in my arms.
Dicken refers to 'Death and the Maiden in chapter 56: “Impassive, as behoves its high breeding, the Dedlock town-house stares at the other houses in the street of dismal grandeur, and gives no outward sign of anything going wrong within. …
[We're nearing the end of Bleak House and Dickens killing off main characters--a real soap opera.. ]
“So did these come and go, [...] so think, as I think, of the gap that they would make in this domain when they were gone; so find it, as I find it, difficult to believe that it could be, without them; so pass from my world, as I pass from theirs, now closing the reverberating door; so leave no blank to miss them, and so die.”
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“And thus poor Charley sickened and grew worse, and fell into heavy danger of death, and lay severely ill for many a long round of day and night. [...]I silently prayed to our Father in heaven that I might not forget the lesson which this little sister taught me…. #bookstodon
“I was very sorrowful to think that Charley's pretty looks would change and be disfigured, even if she recovered — she was such a child with her dimpled face — but that thought was, for the greater part, lost in her greater peril. When she was at the worst, and her mind rambled again [...]”
..Esther and Charley take in a vagrant Jo, who seems to be suffering the ill-effects of a raging fever. By the next morning, Jo has vanished, but he has left his illness behind him. Although Dickens does not identify the contagion as smallpox, he does mention Smallpox, the narrator (Esther) does express her concern that, should Charley survive, she will be much disfigured. Esther tends her young maid throughout her illness.
Subsequently, Esther herself is stricken, suffering not only the skin problems associated with the disease, but also blindness. Given the virulence of both smallpox viruses, the British goverment in the 1850s, enacted a series of laws that made vaccination against smallpox compulsory.
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow; additional text by Philip V. Allingham. Via Victorianweb
note: #rfkjr wants to bring #smallpox back. Back to a time of ‘horse and buggy’. Back to this---it’s so unnecessarily. Unnecessary suffering for RFK Jr.’s ego & wealth.
A source in Tehran close to the presidency told me that Raisi has been confirmed dead, and that the authorities are looking for a way to report the news without causing mayhem. I have not been able to independently confirm this.
[NYTimes]: Nicole Shanahan Ventures Onto the Stump for Kennedy
The Silicon Valley lawyer, chosen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate, made her first solo outing on the stump. She is to appear alongside him at a rally on Monday in Austin, Texas. By By Chris Cameron