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Franz Liszt Resources [Masterpost]

Some resources for Franz Liszt study & research. Will be updated.

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do you like puppye dachshunds?

Of course I do, although my general proclivities go towards cats.

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I believe the reason why the other asker may have pictured you as a guinea pig is that guinea pigs are generally well loved and loveable, and more approaches.

Of course all animals are loveable, but people would probably look at a horse bred by the emperor and admire it from afar. They might be hesitant to go near it or interact with it in any way though, they might be intimidated. You, on the other hand, are warm and generally welcoming and answer kindly when people talk to you, so it makes sense that they would associate you with an animal they consider warm and cuddly. That and the magnificent hair. People care about those things more than they do about heroics.

Your words paint a perspective I would have never dared to imagine, but it does feel quite reassuring. I do thank you because of that and because of your regards. Of course, the hair makes the most sense.

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1. If you are an animal, what animal would you rather be? (I think somehow you resemble guinea pigs, maybe because of the colour scheme)

2. What about dessert? Do you think you would be a piece of cake?

3. What about drink? Do you think you resemble tea, coffee, or other types of drinks such as juice?

:3

I. I'd like to picture myself a Kisbér Felver horse, of those so recently bred by the Emperor. An artificial virtuoso of agility born out of Hungarian blood. Alas, if you better picture me as a guinea pig, perhaps people perceive me slightly less heroic than I do myself...

II. I do not fancy sugar or sweet things. I'd be some kind of horribly tart lemon bonbon which bites on your tongue.

III. Hopefully you will not believe this an invitation to taste alcoholics, but I'd want to think myself a smooth glass of cognac.

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So.. What if I were utterly and entirely enamored with you?

I would be grateful and elated because of how you perceive my person. I would reciprocated with feelings of affection and support.

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Herr Liszt. You seem like the perfect type of person to answer this, but I'm afraid I'm so ashamed..!

Do you often suffer from love? Not in a "aw shit they don't love me back" way, but in a way in which you basically fall in love with the wrong person... Someone who is not available for you, perhaps because of age, status, city..etc.

I don't know how can I deal with it. It's been more than a year now, but these last months definitely made things a bit different and I'm feeling at the verge of madness.

Good evening, my dearest pupil.

In cases of the sort I would personally advise you to express such misdirected, for lack of a better word, feelings into creative endeavours and reflection. This is what such an infatuation is good for. The nostalgia and obsession for an unattainable sliver of life can make you better visualize what such a life would look like. Take it into your own hands and mold art from it! Let us know how it goes from here, if you'd like to.

Best of luck to my little artist.

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My beloved, if I may yet dare the word, Franz,

I write in the hour when all things honest are undone by shadow. Sleep has abandoned me again. It is not rest that visits my chamber, but you....no, not your form as the world applauds it, radiant and terrible; but something quieter, more ruinous. A presence that does not knock, but seeps, like dusk beneath a closed door, until I am steeped in it.

You must not think me fanciful. I know well the boundaries that govern a lady’s thoughts. I was raised among them as one is raised among gravestones....taught to tread lightly, to speak softly, to feel only within permitted confines. And yet, what has your music done, that these boundaries now lie as if disturbed, their inscriptions blurred, their sanctity broken? It is as though you have awakened in me a second self. Paler, more watchful, infinitely more desirous. She stirs when your name is spoken. She leans, unseen, toward every echo of your presence. She is not governed by propriety, nor soothed by reason. She wants.

And I, God help me!, I cannot silence her.

There are moments, in the deepest reaches of night, when I feel you near in a manner no distance should allow. Not as a gentleman approaches, announced and visible, but as something drawn by invitation unspoken. I imagine your gaze finding me in the dimness, not with the indulgent admiration of society, but with an intensity that unmakes all pretence. In that gaze, I feel myself… known. Not admired, but devoured.

Does this frighten me? It ought to. And yet the terror is threaded with a sweetness so dark, irresistible, that I would sooner succumb to it than return to the pale safety of indifference. If you are a danger, then you are one I have already welcomed past every threshold.

I think, no, no, I feel that you would understand this without my speaking it. That you, who summons storms from silence, would recognize the quiet tempest you have wrought within my very being. And should you ever choose to claim it fully, to draw me from this half-life of restraint into whatever abyss your soul inhabits...I would follow in an instance.

Come to me, if only in thought. It is there I am most yours.

Eternally suspended between dread and longing,

E. (Not the other one who starts with an E ;))

Franz Liszt, Morten Carlsen, Sergej Osadchuk · Melankoli · Song · 2001

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A moment for recognition:

This blog, @charlesalkan-official-blog, was my blog before I have acquired this place as a spot for expression. In fact, the @franzliszt-official that's mentioned in the post, was not me.

Once the name cleared out, & I've managed to get it, I had done it mainly for @franzliszts-wife.

It's now been more than 10 years. This does make me feel some sort of way.

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