#michael steen

[cassowary-rapture]

Still working on the whole "Why does Michael Steen hate George Sand" thing

Dude

Her eyes were fascinating, and maybe it was with these that this beetle-like woman seduced her lovers, whom she then consumed.* *The male insect, the mantis, is "a slender and elegant lover." After copulation the female devours the male "mouthful by mouthful, leaving only the wings," wrote the early-20th-century expert on insects, J.H. Fabré. "I have seen the same Mantis treat seven husbands in this fashion. She admitted all to her embraces and all paid for nuptial ecstasy with their lives."

That is...quite a footnote

[cassowary-rapture]

From Michael Steen's The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, re: the early 1800s:

Despite the social changes, individuals were still expected to live and work within their divinely ordained class. Yet the temptations were considerable. An English colonel described the personal problems the male might feel: "Formerly when women wore long stiff stays and cork rumps, you might as well sit with your arm round an oaken tree with the bark on, as around a lady's waist; but now, as you have seldom any more covering but your shift and gown of a cold day, your waist is extremely warm and comfortable to the feel."

[sauseesha]

[theblairewitchproject]

‘Love derails every world-weary strategy, looses cynicism from your bones, laces you with a complete reboot of wonder. You guide your cattle through the Altai mountains in just one night and arrive at a green, slow swishing mediterranean sea with moon white sand between your toes. It is the greatest thing. Stay away from anyone that tells you otherwise. I mean turn around and walk away. So prepare well. Cultivate your interior whilst reaching out to the world. Wander your oak valleys, linger in ornate chapels at dusk, get thrown out of the tavern at midnight, be kind, kiss the wounded, fight injustice and protect, protect, protect all the trembling bells of delight that you notice out of the corner of your eye when everyone else is oblivious.

-- Martin Shaw via Michael Steen

[jingoroandpunchi]

The European Central Bank's decision-making body has not discussed reducing the pace of its monthly bond buying, ECB media officer Michael Steen tweeted on Tuesday, responding to a Bloomberg article.

[gershonposts]

ECB press officer denies QE problems report - Livesquawk

ECB press officer denies QE problems report – Livesquawk

Apparently on social media Michael Steen the ECB press officer has apparently scotched the story. The euro’s bounced but you know the saying, nothings official until it’s been officially denied. Plus, if there are ECB secret squirrels passing comment, they’re hardly going to clear it with the …

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