Word: heart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although mortality had already permeated the composer's household (Mahler's beloved daughter died of scarlet fever a year before), his family was not destined to hang up their mourning garb quite yet. Another death was imminent. During a routine doctor's examination, Mahler was diagnosed with a fatal heart defect. Confronted with his mortality, Mahler was consoled by a new vision--immortality. His heart, his body and his memory would erode. His music, however, would not. Mahler was set to compose his legacy. His ink was his effigy; his fear of death was his muse. And the fervor that...
...condition of humanityand the fragility of the comforts we take forgranted. At the root of the story is not anexplanation for humanity's existence or diagrammeddirections on how to live virtuously: Saramago isnot constructing a sermon on the merits ofobservant, moral living and rational governments.Rather, at the heart of the novel lies a deeplydisturbing hunch that perhaps, in the end, life isblind. We depend on life having a purpose, adirection. The truly disturbing question Saramagoposes is, what if life really means nothing? Thisquestion is not a new one, but it never ceases toprofoundly affect...
...been so nervous for two weeks about the speech I was going to give when I was running for student council president in 12th grade. I practiced in front of the mirror every evening until I could recite it by heart. I picked out the perfect outfit: an off-white twinset, a flowing knee-length navy blue skirt, navy pumps, and nude control-top sheer panty-hose. I was holding my head high, trying to look confident while walking onto the podium. To calm myself, I tried to imagine everyone in the audience in their underwear. People started giggling...
...relationship was that it was always full of surprises," Brian said. "Probably one of the most romantic things that has happened is Valentine's Day our freshman year. I spent the whole day in the basement of Mower baking Jeanne this cake in the shape of a heart. I had planned to let Jeanne find it in my fridge after the Kroks concert, but she told me early that evening that she didn't feel like eating. I kept suggesting though, that we go back to my room. I thought for sure that she had found out about the cake...
When they got back to Brian's room, Brian found a chocolate heart taped to his door with an attached note saying, "Que les jeux commence!" It was the first clue to a scavenger hunt that took Brian all over his room. "Each note I found contained a clue, a chocolate heart, and one thing written on it that Jeanne loves about me," Brian fondly remembers. The notes expressed everything that Jeanne loved about Brian: his kiss, his enthusiasm, his taste in women and his purple sweater...