# ![@VeraCausa9 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::4775533818.png) @VeraCausa9 Michel Lara

Michel Lara posts on X about athens, books, louvre, rome the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[athens](/topic/athens), [books](/topic/books), [louvre](/topic/louvre), [rome](/topic/rome), [in the](/topic/in-the), [british museum](/topic/british-museum), [paris](/topic/paris), [the great](/topic/the-great), [collection](/topic/collection), [greece](/topic/greece)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Here you listen to Beethoven's Romance for Violin & Orchestra No. [--] in F Major played by David Oistrach with the Royal Philharmonic Orch. conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens (1961 Lp recording) Wonderful https://youtu.be/DfYB8rJGB4Asi=JowtvyoG_dOuLzWQ https://youtu.be/DfYB8rJGB4Asi=JowtvyoG_dOuLzWQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022690383361106321)  2026-02-14T15:12Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"5th book recommendation: "Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals" by Emma J. Wells. Informative overview of [--] glorious cathedrals like Chartres Winchester St. Vitus. All a stone enshrinement of the human spiritual aspiration for the divine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2009725306026754493)  2026-01-09T20:33Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The first metaphorical use of the word labyrinth is found in Plato's Euthydemus where Socrates likens a futile philosophical inquiry to a labyrinth: "when we supposed we had arrived at the end we twisted about again and found ourselves at the beginning of our search.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2012584394620289391)  2026-01-17T17:54Z 18.3K followers, 28.2K engagements


"Did you know Erik Satie's piano pieces 'TroisGnossiennes' (1890's) were likely inspired by the Cretan "Knossos" & the labyrinth victory dance by Theseus after defeating the Minotaur Satie's minimalist slow-tempo dance melodies are reminiscent of ancient Greek chromatic scales"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2012625351847891412)  2026-01-17T20:37Z 18.3K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Listening now to the most enigmatic of Erik Satie's 'Gnossiennes' piano pieces. Here's the No. [--] wonderfully played by British pianist Peter Lawson (1980 Lp) Like a mythical slow-tempo dance that moves in a labyrinthine-like pattern outside of time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2012679898775646437)  2026-01-18T00:14Z 18.3K followers, 44.8K engagements


"This known painting "Dante and Beatrice" (1883) by Henry Holiday tells a story of the fateful earthly encounter between the angelic Beatrice and the Florentine poet foreshadowing the beatific love which will guide Dante in his journey through the Inferno Pugatorio & Paradiso"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2013782345694785914)  2026-01-21T01:15Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908) where the poet exhorts us to change our lives is an ekphrastic poem i.e. a verbal description of a visual work of art seeking to reveal new insights into its meaning Rilke likely saw the Miletus Torso Apollo c. [---] BC at the Louvre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2014874699390493135)  2026-01-24T01:35Z 18.4K followers, 29.9K engagements


"The Greek word kphrasis or description comes from Ancient Greek ekphrz I describe from (ek out ex-) + (phrz I explain point out)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2014875458572034270)  2026-01-24T01:38Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The above painting is titled: Klosterruine Oybin (Der Trumer) "Ruins of the Oybin (Dreamer)" [----] oil on canvas by Caspar David Friedrich at the Hermitage Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2015279754912358668)  2026-01-25T04:25Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the fantastically dramatic Allegro con brio 1st movement in Mozart's Symphony No. [--] in G Minor performed by theAcademy of St Martin in the Fieldsw/ Neville Marrinerl for the soundtrack of Amadeus This is the embodiment of 'Sturm und Drang' musically. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2015284915831455904)  2026-01-25T04:45Z 18.3K followers, 11.8K engagements


"Listening now to Bach's sublime Toccata in C Minor BWV [---] masterfully played by Glenn Gould. (1980 Lp) Just like each glass of a multicolored cathedral's rose window mirrors the divine light as a whole so each Bach's contrapuntal fugue echoes the divine music of the spheres"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2015525488777683412)  2026-01-25T20:41Z 18.4K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Let's listen a bit more of Bach's Toccata in C Minor BWV [---] played by Glenn Gould. (1980 Lp) This is another contrapuntal fugue but with a faster tempo. A toccata needs to create a dynamic complex balance between freedom & order thus building up each interlinked layer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2015531805080694881)  2026-01-25T21:06Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the complete Bach's Toccata in C Minor BWV [---] played by Glenn Gould [----] Lp This toccata (over [--] minutes) must be listened as a whole to see its true beauty as each fugue is linked by adagios & paused silences. Just sublime https://youtu.be/xFK5Mc1o9-8si=XEIjdKKumFjnU14S https://youtu.be/xFK5Mc1o9-8si=XEIjdKKumFjnU14S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2015534925307330684)  2026-01-25T21:19Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Of Pilgrimage A pilgrimage could be defined as a pilgrim's educational & spiritual journey whose telos is a re-finding of oneself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2016245183197696171)  2026-01-27T20:21Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to Edvard Grieg's meditative lyrical piano piece 'Solitary Traveller' beautifully played by the great Emil Gilels (1974 Lp) Melody seems to evoke the romantic image of a lonely & pensive wanderer following the music of his heart attuned with the sounds of Nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2016354358426841434)  2026-01-28T03:35Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Imagine this hunter-painter aided by a torch's flickering flame as he uses a charcoal to capture the true likeness (spirit) of animals:a mimetic birth out of the cave's womb-like darkness What motivated this Paleolithic painter's leap of profound visual imagination & creativity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2017734615587287315)  2026-01-31T22:59Z 18.3K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. If you're interested in learning more about this fascinating world of Paleolithic Art this book is an excellent introduction. Written by Jean Clottes one of the leading prehistorians & Paleolithic archeologists in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2017735687617855617)  2026-01-31T23:04Z 18.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to this delightful dance-like Allegro Moderato from Handel's Concerto Grosso Op. [--] Nr. [--] in D Minor exquisitely performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orch. Conducted by Karajan (1967 Lp) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2017992757529182637)  2026-02-01T16:05Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the joyful dance-like Allegro Moderato from Handel's Concerto Grosso Op. [--] Nr. [--] in D Minor performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orch. Conducted by Karajan (1967 Lp). The musicality of Handel's strings is a balm to the weary soul https://youtu.be/dITVeJoBeCgsi=vWT2odBojQun08Uj https://youtu.be/dITVeJoBeCgsi=vWT2odBojQun08Uj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2017996450530013373)  2026-02-01T16:20Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. Highly recommended that you explore & listen to all of Handel's Concerti Grossi. Pure musical delight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018000008914579623)  2026-02-01T16:34Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painted "Twelve (Dutch) Proverbs" [----] 1-Futility: "I keep vainly pissing against the moon" 2-Hypocrisy: "I carry fire in one hand & water in the other" (To blow hot and cold with the same breath)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018460585038676415)  2026-02-02T23:04Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Hans Hoffmann-A Hedgehog watercolor & gouache on vellum before 1584- at Met Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018490212981125243)  2026-02-03T01:02Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Erasmus' Adagia commentary on who has a more effective self-defense: the one-skilled Hedgehog or the many-skilled Fox. The adage was first written by ancient Greek lyric poet Archilochus. Erasmus also quotes from Pliny's Natural History"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018490894333161621)  2026-02-03T01:05Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the elegant dance-like Adagio/Rondo: Allegro from Haydn's Cello Concerto [--] in D performed by the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich w/ the Academy of St. Martin-In-The Fields Orch. (1976 Lp) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018531127406051374)  2026-02-03T03:44Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to this exquisite Adagio/Rondo: Allegro from Haydn's Cello Concerto [--] in D performed by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich w/ the Academy of St. Martin-In-The Fields Orch. (1976 Lp) https://youtu.be/87N_GrWWvywsi=gTZ2kUBFajgPrf5a https://youtu.be/87N_GrWWvywsi=gTZ2kUBFajgPrf5a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018532043844727150)  2026-02-03T03:48Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. If you listen closely to this piece you could notice Haydn's musical influence on a young Beethoven who also became the prodigy-pupil of old Haydn in Vienna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018534281514197111)  2026-02-03T03:57Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The mark of genius in a master draughtsman like Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) is not solely a life-like accuracy but the striking immediacy of the sitters allowing spectators 100s of yrs hence to catch a glimpse of their elusive personality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018767780854587661)  2026-02-03T19:25Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Listening now to the ever exhilarating strings of this Allegro movement in Vivaldi's Concerto II G Minor RV.578 from L'Estro Armonico performed by the Academy Of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner (1973 Lp) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018787040649953358)  2026-02-03T20:41Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the Allegro in Vivaldi's Concerto II G Minor RV.578 from his L'Estro Armonico performed by the Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner (1973 Lp) https://youtu.be/Ask11o7PxsMsi=9oLCF1LL0LSwGQoj https://youtu.be/Ask11o7PxsMsi=9oLCF1LL0LSwGQoj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018788648221810845)  2026-02-03T20:48Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. Though Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' is a work of genius & the most renowned of all his concerti. I have always enjoyed more the Twelve Concerti (Opus 3) of the 'L'Estro Armonico'. It's a fantastic musical journey. Highly recommended"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018790995194999165)  2026-02-03T20:57Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"For those enjoying my classical music posts I'd like to recommend this beautifully illustrated book: Classical Destinations (2006) a tv show travelogue for classical music lovers covering composers like Vivaldi (Venice) Mozart (Salzburg) Bach (Germany) Grieg (Norway)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018861067175383198)  2026-02-04T01:36Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can enjoy most of the Classical Destinations I & II (2006/2008) TV show episodes presented by British actor Simon Callow. A fantastic travelogue of classical music history across old Europe. https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PL5JqSuIvtmANWTLiJDS_C7kcn6m9YKq0n&si=uqFSf3UVv1YhjmZC https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PL5JqSuIvtmANWTLiJDS_C7kcn6m9YKq0n&si=uqFSf3UVv1YhjmZC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2018862684356202689)  2026-02-04T01:42Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"This bronze horse head (once guilded gold) Hellenistic c.350 BC has a striking detail showing right ear inclined forward left one backwards i.e. to meet challenges ahead & to hear the rider's command *so-called Medici Riccardi Horse at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019201267470676416)  2026-02-05T00:07Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The naturalistic rendering of this horse head shows the Hellenistic sculptor capturing the strength of a real horse not an ideal one: gaze intensity heavy breathing mouth open by the bit nostrils flaring neck straining (wrinkles) as the rider commands his stallion forward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019203445522313289)  2026-02-05T00:16Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. This life-size horse head was once part of an equestrian bronze statue of an important Hellenistic commander or ruler. During the Renaissance it ended up in the antiquities private collection of Lorenzo de Medici"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019203873081290794)  2026-02-05T00:18Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@alfonsoliguor11 The Angels Horn turntable is a good beginner's record player. However I did a couple of upgrades for sound quality: the stylus & the speakers. I had it for a few months. So far so good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019512439986106835)  2026-02-05T20:44Z 18.4K followers, [--] engagements


"The above marble fragment depicts two old men so-called Thallophores () who carried olive branches in the processions of the Panathenaea from the Parthenon North Frieze ca.442-438BC at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019566789064344004)  2026-02-06T00:20Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. Today I re-wrote this meditation on Memory & Oblivion I initially wrote a few years ago now expanding it into an imaginative piece: 'The Myth of Memory and Oblivion'. Thank you all for your continuous reading"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019568007941615739)  2026-02-06T00:25Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the wholehearted virtuosity in the Allegro Non Troppo (1st mov.) from Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major performed by the great David Oistrakh with the French National Radio Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer(1961 Lp) An interpretation for the ages Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019615407716340177)  2026-02-06T03:33Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the complete virtuosity displayed in the Allegro Non Troppo (1st mov.) from Brahms' Violin Concerto performed by David Oistrakh w/ the French National Radio Orch. conducted by Otto Klemperer(1961 Lp) Worth [--] minutes of your time https://youtu.be/sgYuWZbU4KMsi=OF8EVIPHI6dAbdGo https://youtu.be/sgYuWZbU4KMsi=OF8EVIPHI6dAbdGo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019617314036150552)  2026-02-06T03:41Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can watch the whole Brahms' Violin Concerto in this [----] performance by the great David Oistrakh with the Moscow Philharmonic Orch. Conducted by Kirill Kondrashin. Fantastic https://youtu.be/RFkSiNp4CRQsi=8sl4hzHLsj6umraq https://youtu.be/RFkSiNp4CRQsi=8sl4hzHLsj6umraq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019619138415849813)  2026-02-06T03:48Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to a beautiful cadenza in the Allegro Ma Non Troppo from Beethoven's Violin Concerto masterfully played by Heifetz w/ Boston Symphony Orch. conducted byCharles Munch (1956 Lp).This is the 1st Romantic violin concerto(1806) where a violinist virtuosity truly shines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019980895240032282)  2026-02-07T03:45Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Let's listen to another gorgeous cadenza in the Allegro Ma Non Troppo (1st mov.) from Beethoven's Violin Concerto played by the great Heifetz with the Boston Symphony Orch. conducted byCharles Munch (1956 Lp)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019984169032696263)  2026-02-07T03:58Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the whole Allegro Ma Non Troppo (1st mov.) from Beethoven's Violin Concerto played by Heifetz with the Boston Symphony Orch. conducted byCharles Munch (1956 Lp) Worth [--] minutes of your time because it's timeless music https://youtu.be/c7PmtFWnHXMsi=rhMS3PU_Ydy1EiAg https://youtu.be/c7PmtFWnHXMsi=rhMS3PU_Ydy1EiAg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2019987128000590054)  2026-02-07T04:10Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"I'd like to recommend this insightful book I bought over [--] years ago to all music lovers: 'Music and the Mind' (1992) by Anthony Storr. Music's mysterious & ageless melodic language echoes our joys & sorrows and like storytelling is part of what makes human existence meaningful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2020216602520645931)  2026-02-07T19:22Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"In the first chapter 'Origins & Collective Functions' Storr explains the ancient Greek's deep understanding between two languages as one: music & poetry were both underpinned by the Greek word melos i.e. melody"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2020221390410989811)  2026-02-07T19:41Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to one of the most romantically-infused classical pieces: Notturno: Andante from Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No. [--] in D major. Here is wonderfully performed by theDrolc-Quartett (1969 Lp) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2020302006905421990)  2026-02-08T01:01Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The Arcadian shepherd playing a flute was a popular idyllic trope by 17th-century Flemish/Dutch painters. In this case their flutes were a substitute for Pan's syrinx or panpipes whose mythological rustic music brought forth the hearer's suppressed wild nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2020653246940144035)  2026-02-09T00:17Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to this lively Andante movement from Bach's 'Sonata For Flute & Harpsichord' in B minor (BWV 1030) played exquisitely by Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) & Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) (1985 Lp) Such a thrillingly hopeful tune Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2020702402383688010)  2026-02-09T03:32Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


""This age of indolence.darkened the face of learning and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste. -Edward Gibbon"The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1776-1788)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2020960151235338518)  2026-02-09T20:37Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Listening now to the always thrilling fanfare/galloping section ('March of the Swiss Soldiers') in Rossinis'William Tell Overture' wonderfully performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy (1957 Lp recording) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021386199714443270)  2026-02-11T00:50Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Two excellent reference books on thousands of classical music terms: What is a sonata a counterpoint or tone poem NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening by M. Hoffman The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms by Alison Latham"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021428946332791255)  2026-02-11T03:39Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Must-have Classical Music reference book: Gramophone's The Classical Good Cd & DVD Guide This book contains over [----] insightful reviews of recordings made by the greatest musicians. This has been my go-to guide to build a classical music collection on cd & vinyl over the years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021435400796111041)  2026-02-11T04:05Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the frantically war-like 'Sabre Dance' from Khachaturian's [----] ballet 'Gayaneh'. This recording comes from the [----] Lp "Khachaturian Conducts Khachaturian" with the London Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021746661530227190)  2026-02-12T00:42Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the 'Sabre Dance' in Khachaturian's [----] ballet 'Gayaneh' from [----] Lp "Khachaturian Conducts Khachaturian" with the London Symphony Orchestra. Fantastically energetic It's one of the most recognizable classical pieces https://youtu.be/veuLIsRIhIgsi=0rWX0IKmMWgcQgxL https://youtu.be/veuLIsRIhIgsi=0rWX0IKmMWgcQgxL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021749083027677517)  2026-02-12T00:51Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


""Circassian beauties" is a phrase referring to an idealized image of the women of the Circassian people of the Northwestern Caucasus. They were thought to be unusually beautiful & spirited thus making them desirable as concubines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021802278353596438)  2026-02-12T04:23Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. During the Ottoman Empire Circassian women living as slaves in the Sultan's Imperial Harem started to build their reputation as extremely beautiful and genteel which then became a common trope in Western Orientalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021802801555505238)  2026-02-12T04:25Z 18.4K followers, [--] engagements


"P.S. During the Ottoman Empire Circassian women living as slaves in the Sultan's Imperial Harem started to build their reputation as extremely beautiful and genteel which then became a common trope in Western Orientalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021807203158458568)  2026-02-12T04:42Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can listen to 'Fanfare for the Common Man'(1942) by Aaron Copland performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orch. conducted by Leonard Slatkin. An unforgettable classical piece https://youtu.be/fD2UsUNPGicsi=oN4WXAK571b1m7Qw https://youtu.be/fD2UsUNPGicsi=oN4WXAK571b1m7Qw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022168635247366233)  2026-02-13T04:39Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"In this timeless fable Aesop tells us how wise Prometheus taught mortal men two ways of living their lives: freedom or slavery. You could build your own path or the path is built for you. In one you walk as you please in the other one you must ask to walk upon it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2022152457795801371)  2026-02-13T03:34Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to Liszt's elegiac piano piece 'La Lugubre Gondola' I (1882) which foreshadows Wagner's death on February [--] [----]. This somber version is played by Maurizio Pollini. https://youtu.be/AtR64gWQHossi=AqxJMS_ejxVLg6HK https://youtu.be/AtR64gWQHossi=AqxJMS_ejxVLg6HK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022529440643727521)  2026-02-14T04:32Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"This haunting photograph of a Lethean-like gondola was taken by Carlo Naya around 1880-83 an image that is contemporary with Wagner & Liszt stay in Venice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022532016244428968)  2026-02-14T04:43Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Goethe's words in 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'(1774) embody the German 'sturm und drang' (storm & stress) i.e. the supremacy of individual passions over reason: "I am proud of my heart alone it is the sole source of everything all our strength happiness and misery.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2015278822979969362)  2026-01-25T04:21Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Listening now to the gloriously heroic 'Fanfare for the Common Man'(1942) by Aaron Copland wonderfully performed by the Philharmonia Orch. conducted by Leonard Slatkin. A fanfare that like a heavenly call summons the human spirit to ever radiate light in the darkest hour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022166624095387729)  2026-02-13T04:31Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Short thread on informative classical music reference books I'd recommend & which have guided me throughout the years. Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music by F. Plotkin NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection by T. Libbey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2021425335955579263)  2026-02-11T03:25Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Listening now to Liszt's 'La Lugubre Gondola' (1882) played by Reinbert de Leeuw. Liszt composed it while visiting Wagner at the Palazzo Vendramin eerily foreshadowing Wagner's death on February [--] [----]. Wagner's body was carried in a funeral gondola through the Venetian canals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022527035294286220)  2026-02-14T04:23Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


""I shall show you a love potion without a drug without a herb; without the incantation of any sorceress: if you wish to be loved love. " Ego tibi monstrabo amatorium sine medicamento sine herba sine ullius veneficae carmine: si vis amari ama -Seneca Moral Letters IX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022735747590025609)  2026-02-14T18:12Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This [----] painting of Pyramus and Thisbe by Lawrence Alma-Tadema is titled:''Ask Me No More'' a quote from Tennyson's poem "The Princess""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022737118183993822)  2026-02-14T18:18Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements


"These interior paintings by Danish artist Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933) depict not only solitary female figures reading but also reading the silent inwardness of desire like dreambound selves imagining to be free from a shadow-laced reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022502280843440486)  2026-02-14T02:44Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Listening now to the passionate but loving elegance of Beethoven's Romance For Violin & Orchestra No. [--] in F Major played by the great David Oistrach with the Royal Philharmonic Orch. conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens in this [----] Lp recording. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022687506920075533)  2026-02-14T15:00Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Listening now to the dazzling soul melancholia in "Vocalise' (1915) by Rachmaninoff in this orchestral version by the Philadelphia Orch. Conducted by Eugene Ormandy with a solo violin by Norman Carol in this [----] Lp recording. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023240377373721082)  2026-02-16T03:37Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Noh masks noh-men are deceptively expressionless they are rather windows to the soul that with the slightest change in tilt and lighting can bring forth an array of hidden emotions. Noh masks are imbued with both ygen "the mysterious" & seishin-sei "spiritual depth""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1069048153960316928)  2018-12-02T01:58Z 16.5K followers, [--] engagements


"This is the same female Noh mask at different angles showing how the expression/mood changes with the tilting of the head. Slightly tilting the mask with terasu (tilting upwards) the mask appears smiling or laughing while kumorasu (tilting downwards) bring forth sadness or anger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1069057965758574593)  2018-12-02T02:37Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"In today's book passage let's honor the passing of Mary Oliver a poet of the greatest sensibility and imagination who saw the natural world as a song a wonder an enigma awaiting to be re-discovered by our attentive eye"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1086003176162107392)  2019-01-17T20:51Z 17.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Ailing Fury Now she's eyeless. The snakes she held once Eat up her hands. -George Seferis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1182113510593052672)  2019-10-10T01:59Z 17.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Marble statue from East pediment (G) of Parthenon. A young girl clad in a chiton flees her drapery is flying out behind. The head & right hand entire left arm & both feet are missing. Her identification is uncertain. Designed by Phidias438-432 BC- at British Museum 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1182116652919508999)  2019-10-10T02:12Z 17.8K followers, [--] engagements


"What can we inferred from Socrates' early life that illuminates the making of the philosopher How influential was the fascinating Aspasia in shaping Socrates' revolutionary questions on human nature Socrates in Love:The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1209214425221226498)  2019-12-23T20:49Z 16.6K followers, [--] engagements


"A highly readable & relevant book on the first polymath. Let Aristotle's phronesis or "practical wisdom" help you discover your innate telos or human potentiality. "Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life" by Edith Hall @edithmayhall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1209225246588444673)  2019-12-23T21:32Z 16.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Ode to Art Art offspring of light and shadow mimesis of nature that outlives age in human defiance against inevitable endings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1488289791594700808)  2022-01-31T23:15Z 17.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Silver [--] litra-piece with diademed head of Greek king of Syracuse Gelon II Hellenistic period minted ca. [------] B.C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1557461031576039424)  2022-08-10T20:17Z 17.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Is this a forerunner of Rodin's 'The Thinker': can a piece of art be truly original *Terracotta statuette of a pensive man seated on a rock Boeotian Hellenistic c.300 BC at the Met"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1614757676805947393)  2023-01-15T22:53Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"For Greeks & Romans Opportunity (Kairos) must be seized by the forelock before losing it forever "Don't let slip away what is right for you:Opportunity has hair at the front but bald in the back" Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli:fronte capillatapost est Occasio calva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1886793285793948097)  2025-02-04T15:05Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Regalia of Charles II by British School (16701679) showing the Crown of State the Royal Sceptre and its cross finial the orb the Garter the Garter riband with the 'Lesser George' and the Garter collar with the 'George' all resting on a cushion and a parliamentary robe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1892434929377550691)  2025-02-20T04:43Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. After Charles I execution (1649) the royal regalia was taken to the Tower for destruction by order of Parliament though there's some evidence that this order was not entirely carried out & that St Edward's Crown was remade from the surviving fragments of the medieval Crown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1892435589133210069)  2025-02-20T04:46Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements


"English word numinous derives from Latin numen "divinity" "divine presence" from nuo "nod of the head" implying divine will as Seneca wrote if you're in a shaded grove (lucus) of ancient trees you'll feel awe at its numinosity i.e. divinity presence (fidem tibi numinis faciet)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1939535510818492663)  2025-06-30T04:04Z 16.5K followers, 22.1K engagements


"Ancient Greek myths have inspired the creation of many fabulous words in the English vocabulary: Protean Lethean Chimerical Stygian Procustean Herculean Sisyphean Hermetic Hypnotic Erotic Phobia Panic Narcissistic Chronological Chaotic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1941957018224320545)  2025-07-06T20:26Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The Terminology of Books (De librorum vocabulis) from Isidore of Seville Etymologiae VI.Xiii Isidore tells us a book is called 'liber' because scrolls were made (joined together) from the inner bark (liber) of trees. Thus copyists were called 'librarius' after the bark of trees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1946587191917814111)  2025-07-19T15:05Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"'The Etymologiesof Isidore of Seville' compiled 615-630s AD should be part of every serious book collection. He sought the preservation of knowledge from classical pagan & Christian worlds. Arguably the most influential book after the Bible in the Latin West for nearly [----] yrs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1946590882653671817)  2025-07-19T15:20Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Sculpture detail of a captive Dacian depicted with a realistic Roman immediacy-marble 2nd c. AD (Trajan's reign period) likely found in Trajan's Forum now at the Vatican Museums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1948222700771480009)  2025-07-24T03:24Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Keats' poetic notion 'Negative Capability' or the capacity to be "in uncertainties mysteries doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" is what Christian mystics called 'via negativa' i.e. to experience the divine in all its sublimity of undefinable unknowns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1950082632286371988)  2025-07-29T06:35Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Caspar David Friedrich-Sunset (Brothers) oil on canvas ca. [----] at The Hermitage Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1950083763045621925)  2025-07-29T06:39Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"A Chirogram shows hand gestures techniques to emphasize rhetorical appeals w/ letters of the alphabet for memorization from John Bulwer's "Chirologia" or the Natural Language of the Hand [----] described by Roman rhetorician Quintilian in his "Institutio Oratoria" AD 95"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1951706769014895057)  2025-08-02T18:08Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"After the god Hermes offered Pythagoras any gift except immortality the philosopher & mathematician chose to retain the memory of what he had experienced of both living & dead" Thus via incarnation after incarnation (metempsychosis) Pythagoras could remember all his past lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1952495321252274206)  2025-08-04T22:22Z 16.5K followers, 12.2K engagements


"This 'Portrait of an Old Woman' by German artist Balthasar Denner painted around 1740s is a remarkable natural depiction of the sitters facewith all the serene subtlety of wrinkles mapping her old age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1955821784155992238)  2025-08-14T02:40Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"This wonderfully expressive oil on canvas titled 'Portrait of an Old Woman' by Balthasar Denner is at the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1955822562971177222)  2025-08-14T02:43Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Caspar D. Friedrich's painting 'Brothers' [----] shows a twilight ("between light") a liminal passage from a life-giving solar energy to a death-bringing lunar force. Twilight was also a Romantic symbol in painting meaning the oblivion of old age heralds the passage of the soul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1969553280389792203)  2025-09-21T00:04Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"Caspar David Friedrich-'Brothers or 'Evening landscape with two men' [----] oil on canvas is at The Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1969553934214717510)  2025-09-21T00:07Z 17K followers, [---] engagements


"Like a dark specter these stone ruins are silently fading under Time's merciless hands. As Ovid once declared tempus edax rerum "time devourer of all things." *The ruins of Guiseborough Abbey-1934 photograph by Alexander Keighley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1979326656960696558)  2025-10-17T23:20Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"P.S. The ruin of Guisborough Abbey (Augustinian priory founded in 1119) is located in North Yorkshire England. The photograph shows a freestanding stone archway with a window above the top section with three ghostly figures standing in the lower left of the image"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1979329232842166755)  2025-10-17T23:30Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"There's a Mephistopheles/Faustian mood to this night photograph of a man and his shadow reminding me of these words by Goethe's Faust: "Two souls.are housed within my breast And each will wrestle for the mastery there." *Bocskay-terBudapest [----] photograph by Andr Kertsz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1979704673318957565)  2025-10-19T00:22Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Le Stryge The grotesque stone sentinel feeds each night from our somnolence imagination in the fleeting elegy of our dreams. *Le Stryge Vue nocturne de Notre-Dame sur Paris et la Tour Saint-Jacques [----] photograph by Brassa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1980435426977653054)  2025-10-21T00:46Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. Le Stryge ("vampire') is not a medieval gargoyle but a 19th-century 'grotesque' created by restorer Viollet-le-Duc yet he's mistakenly referred to as a gargoyle overlooking Paris from his Notre-Dame's lookout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1980438142810485226)  2025-10-21T00:57Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"This hauntingly airy image reminds me of the nymph Echo wasting away until just becoming an unseen echoing voice due to her unrequited love for Narcissus whose blinding amor sui or "self-love" made him incapable to love another. 'The Breeze' [----] photograph by Anne Brigman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1980828521271636204)  2025-10-22T02:48Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"This photo shows the face of an enigmatic young medieval king gazing intently reminding me of Shakespeare's words: "fearless minds climbsoonestunto crowns." *Walter Hege [----] photo of The Bamberg Horseman (Der Bamberger Reiter) ca. 1230s equestrian statue in Bamberg Cathedral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1981199413638025290)  2025-10-23T03:22Z 18K followers, [---] engagements


"The 'Bamberg Horseman' (ca. 1230s) was made by an anonymous medievalsculptor mounted on a console at the north pillar of the St. George choir at Bamberg Cathedral Germany. It's considered the first monumental equestrian statue sinceclassical antiquity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1981201164470538263)  2025-10-23T03:29Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to 'Initiation: Psalm 2" by Paul Horn playing the Alto Flute inside the King's Chamber of the Cheops Pyramid from his wonderfully mystical [----] 2LP 'Inside The Great Pyramid'. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1981942182672998705)  2025-10-25T04:33Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you listen to the whole live recording of Paul Horn playing his Alto Flute & C" Flute inside the King & Queen's Chamber of the Cheops Pyramid from his [----] 2LP Inside The Great Pyramid' This is a mystical journey of the soul via music https://youtube.com/playlistlist=OLAK5uy_nfF6IJliaR0529-T4YfpklBwuo_wG9cmI&si=-EuawKvuc7bSBxV- https://youtube.com/playlistlist=OLAK5uy_nfF6IJliaR0529-T4YfpklBwuo_wG9cmI&si=-EuawKvuc7bSBxV-"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1981946390550122964)  2025-10-25T04:50Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. Paul Horn [----] flute live recording 'Inside' theTaj Mahal(inAgra) sold millions of copies turning him into a pioneer of New-Age music. This particular LP is one of my favorite albums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1981952800675283018)  2025-10-25T05:15Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"A Gothic cathedral's rose window is intelligible beauty expressed as woven light radiating outwards men's love for the divine as Hugh of Saint Victor 1096-1141 said: "Visible beauty is an image of invisible beauty" *St. Vitus Gothic Cathedral Prague [----] photo by Josef Sudek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1982528856021172510)  2025-10-26T19:24Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"P.S. The above [----] photograph by Josef Sudek specifically shows the view of the vault of the main nave of St. Vitus Gothic Cathedral in Prague"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1982530223548813694)  2025-10-26T19:30Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can listen to 'The Beatitudes' by Arvo Prtperformed by the Choir of King's College Cambridge directed byStephen Cleobury & organby David Goode-2025 LP compilation 'Pax' This is spiritual timelessness via music http://youtu.be/rxbArDRcVb4si http://youtu.be/rxbArDRcVb4si"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1982639335179780105)  2025-10-27T02:43Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. This choral 'The Beatitudes" by Arvo Prt wonderfully complements the earlier vintage photograph I posted: St. Vitus Gothic Cathedral Prague [----] photo by Josef Sudek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1982645035532509235)  2025-10-27T03:06Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to "Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)" by Dead Can Dance with the legendary voice of Lisa Gerrard from their [----] LP "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" Phenomenal Gothic Rock Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984037495525478538)  2025-10-30T23:19Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to "Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)" by Dead Can Dance from their [----] LP "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" *The LP cover is a photo from the family grave ofFranois-Vincent RaspailatPre-Lachaisecemetery in Paris. https://youtu.be/xGDxnRMNJTQsi=oHkQXFtA12IbQEIa https://youtu.be/xGDxnRMNJTQsi=oHkQXFtA12IbQEIa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984039459281846533)  2025-10-30T23:27Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can listen to the whole [----] Lp 'Tubular Bells' by the multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. https://youtu.be/x3icN2asL_4si=mzpm6UYlAnCa1hnn https://youtu.be/x3icN2asL_4si=mzpm6UYlAnCa1hnn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984381125180211692)  2025-10-31T22:05Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"After the [----] LP release the BBC asked Mike Oldfield to perform the first part of 'Tubular Bells' with the help of other great English musicians. This is a must-watch Enjoy https://youtu.be/nbYQYOM66MAsi=ruy0ze7TYSLZ6p92 https://youtu.be/nbYQYOM66MAsi=ruy0ze7TYSLZ6p92"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984382555693728019)  2025-10-31T22:10Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to Rachmaninoff's cinematic & beautifully elegiac [----] symphonic poem: "The Isle of the Dead" based on Arnold Bcklin's famous painting. This is my favorite interpretation by Fritz Reiner & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [----] recording. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984408738329977013)  2025-10-31T23:54Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can listen to the complete Rachmaninoff's [----] symphonic poem 'The Isle of the Dead' performed in [----] by Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Wonderful recording https://youtu.be/VjZAVj5Zv5Usi=XALY0R2oYFLkOkL- https://youtu.be/VjZAVj5Zv5Usi=XALY0R2oYFLkOkL-"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984412241467490351)  2025-11-01T00:08Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"In Bcklin's [----] 'Isle of the Dead' a weary ferryman like the mythical Charon oars the dead souls through Stygian unrippled waters. Here the standing pale-cloaked figure soul mirrors the spectral marbled luminosity of the island's towering rocks hugging tall dark cypresses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984454740055371974)  2025-11-01T02:57Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Of the three possible models for the rocky isle which inspired Bcklin to paint six versions of 'Island of the Dead' the closest one is the island Saint George Ostrvo Sveti ore off the coast of Perast in Bay of Kotor Montenegro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984456096824557604)  2025-11-01T03:02Z 16.5K followers, 11.7K engagements


"Listening now to 'Talk To The Wind' by King Crimson from their groundbreaking Prog-Rock [----] LP 'In The Court Of The Crimson King'.This ballad is one of my all-time favorite songs with fantastic pathos singing of Greg Lake accompanied by the pastoral flute of Ian McDonald.Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1984810958645313626)  2025-11-02T02:33Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to "Old and Wise" by The Alan Parsons Projectfrom their [----] LP "Eye In The Sky". This is just a beautiful-crafted song from a great Prog-Rock band Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1985064338931978688)  2025-11-02T19:19Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can listen to the wonderful "Old and Wise" by The Alan Parsons Projectfrom their [----] LP "Eye In The Sky." This song gets better and better like a fine vintage wine https://youtu.be/FDlDKvidYbksi=2h8L6_bIz05ukatw https://youtu.be/FDlDKvidYbksi=2h8L6_bIz05ukatw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1985066440311943411)  2025-11-02T19:28Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. if you ever buy yourself a fine turntable & want to build a small vinyl collection this Alan Parsons Project LP is a must-have to test its sound quality. Really all APP albums are top-notch recorded by Alan Parsons one of the great sound engineers in music history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1985069927535890634)  2025-11-02T19:42Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"This enigmatic painting titled 'Harbor at Night (Sisters)' ca.1820 by Caspar David Friedrich seems to color these delphic words by Horace: "Wisely god shrouds the future in darkness of the night prudens futuri temporis exitum caliginosa nocte premit deus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1985234257040560636)  2025-11-03T06:35Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"*The painting 'Harbor at Night (Sisters)' ca.1820 by Caspar David Friedrich is at the Hermitage Museum *Horace's quotation appears in his Odes III.29"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1985236006249914475)  2025-11-03T06:42Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The Latin phrase Libri ex navibus "books from ships" derives from a Ptolemy III Euregetes' edict asking "to borrow" all books arriving via ships in Alexandria port (like Greek classics) were copied yet Ptolemy returned the copies & kept the originals in the Library of Alexandria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1987662129361797342)  2025-11-09T23:22Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements


"The above photo shows a detail from the so-called Hellenistic 'NileMosaic'(ca. 2nd century BC) depicting Ptolemaic ships in the Nile River with soldiers onboard at the National Archaeological Museum of Palestrina Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1987663529285972002)  2025-11-09T23:28Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the spellbinding nocturnal Largo in Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor "La Notte" for Flute Strings & Continuo with the flute of Hans-Martin Linde & the Zurich Collegium Musicum Orch. Directed by Paul Sacher (1969 recording) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988423255028625829)  2025-11-12T01:47Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements


"The Chained Library For centuries books whose words have been fettered to the unlight of unremembering silence await for one redeeming sound: the turn of a page by a reader. *Chained books at the Chetham's Library (1653) Manchester"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988492548092879297)  2025-11-12T06:22Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements


""Curiously enough one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader a major reader an active and creative reader is arereader." -Vladimir Nabokov 'Good Readers and Good Writers' from 'Lectures on Literature' (1980)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988711954165412252)  2025-11-12T20:54Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Vladimir Nabokov wears eyeglasses while reading a book in his suite at the Montreux Palace Hotel Montreux Switzerland 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988712334890602874)  2025-11-12T20:55Z 16.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the Moderato 1st movement in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major played by the great Mstislav Rostropovich in the cello with the Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orch. (1976 LP) This is a fantastic cello concerto. It's one of my favorites Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988775919201444136)  2025-11-13T01:08Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the complete Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major played by Mstislav Rostropovich in the cello with the Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Wonderful Moderato Adagio Allegro Molto https://youtu.be/VSa225Vq1gssi=HieTO1ieERev-bL9 https://youtu.be/xIZ6zulI_Ewsi=aTg2DDq0LjXaR-At https://youtu.be/UFams8_x77gsi=JvdzFU7GTn3Lc_AC https://youtu.be/VSa225Vq1gssi=HieTO1ieERev-bL9 https://youtu.be/xIZ6zulI_Ewsi=aTg2DDq0LjXaR-At https://youtu.be/UFams8_x77gsi=JvdzFU7GTn3Lc_AC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988778450510049306)  2025-11-13T01:18Z 16.6K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. If you listen closely to this Haydn's cello concerto in C Major you can immediately notice how influential he was on the young Beethoven when Haydn became his teacher in Vienna. That's why Haydn is essential to listen to in the development of European classical music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1988784587942883617)  2025-11-13T01:42Z 16.6K followers, [---] engagements


"The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells us there are four types of book readers:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1989460226924564851)  2025-11-14T22:27Z 16.7K followers, 39.3K engagements


"Listening now to the 1st movement in Mendelssohn's Symphony [--] 'Scotch Symphony' performed by the LSO conducted by Claudio Abbado [----] LP recording. Such a beautifully moving symphony Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1989491562213204453)  2025-11-15T00:32Z 16.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Here you can listen to the complete Mendelssohn's Symphony [--] 'Scotch Symphony' performed by the LSO conducted by Claudio Abbado [----] LP. This is one of my favorite symphonies Just beautiful https://youtu.be/KU1c47uXcm0si=-L890FZteNpVtI5z https://youtu.be/KU1c47uXcm0si=-L890FZteNpVtI5z"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1989493332897366452)  2025-11-15T00:39Z 16.6K followers, [---] engagements


""After allno one can draw more out of things books included than he already knows." -Nietzsche 'Ecce Homo' 1888"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1990296366472630354)  2025-11-17T05:50Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements


"A man browses outside a bookshop Charing Cross Road London [----] photograph by Henry Grant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1990296827707670864)  2025-11-17T05:51Z 16.6K followers, [---] engagements


"The Alexandrian Complex 'The Alexandrian Complex' could be defined as an unsatiated obsession of seeking knowledge by collecting an ever increasing number of books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1990527905051607418)  2025-11-17T21:10Z 16.7K followers, 34.4K engagements


"My Library at Night If books truly whisper among themselves in the secret language of the dead then perhaps Homer could recite a new hard-fated adventure in the land of infinite scrolls where an old Odysseus re-imagines his whole life after the ancient bard listened to Borges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1990639149544554705)  2025-11-18T04:32Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Three of the precepts in the Dicta Catonis or "Sayings of Cato" which taught both Latin & Christian morals to schoolchildren for a thousand years were: Libros lege Read books Litteras disce "Study literature" Quae legeris memento Remember what you read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991265457781809227)  2025-11-19T22:00Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The above marble relief plate shows Grammar one of the three subjects (trivium) taught in the Medieval curriculum. Here represented by Priscian (6th c. AD Latin grammarian) teaching two schoolboys created by Luca della Robbia 1437-39 for Giotto's Campanile Florence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991266388455862284)  2025-11-19T22:04Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. The Catonis Disticha or "Couplets of Cato" was a Latincollection of proverbial wisdom & morality (partly Classical & partly Christian) by an unknown author compiled during 3rd-4th c AD. The'Cato'was the most popular medieval schoolbook for teaching Latin & morals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991267526039228585)  2025-11-19T22:09Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the delightful dance movement in Handel's Sarabande Suite in D Minor transcribed to the guitar by the great maestro Andres Segovia. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991319198920835326)  2025-11-20T01:34Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements


""Beware of lending your books to anyone." libros vero tuos cave cuiquam tradas -Cicero 'Letters to Atticus' [--] BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991359378356920478)  2025-11-20T04:14Z 16.7K followers, 12.1K engagements


"P.S. Titus Pomponius Atticus was Cicero's personal friend living in Athens and who throughout the years sent the Roman orator many classic books in Greek for his extensive library collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991363991114039449)  2025-11-20T04:32Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


""I have turned my entire attention to Greek. First thing I shall do as soon as the money arrives is buy (books of) some Greek authors; then I shall buy clothes" -Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt April [--] 1500"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991644824018039041)  2025-11-20T23:08Z 16.9K followers, 19.1K engagements


"The above painting shows the Portrait of Erasmus von Rotterdam by Hans Holbein ca. [----] at the Louvre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991645307495674073)  2025-11-20T23:10Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to Telemann's magnificent Prelude in Quartet No. [--] E Minor (for Flute Violin Violoncello & Basso Continuo) from the 'Parisian Quartets' performed by the AmsterdamQuartet (1963 LP recording) Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991666455994327500)  2025-11-21T00:34Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The first known (non-royal) personal book collection is attributed to Aristotle. This significant collection (w/ his own works) later became part of the Lyceum school library According to Strabo "Aristotle's Library" was then taken to Rome by Sulla after sacking Athens in [--] BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991949803979473174)  2025-11-21T19:20Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements


"P.S.#1 Sulla was not the only Roman conqueror who looted books. In [---] BC L. Aemilius Paulus returned to Rome with the whole contents of the royal library belonging to King Perseus of Macedonia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991951771875582086)  2025-11-21T19:28Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S #2 The consul Lucullus' conquests in Asia Minor (74-64 BC) claimed as his war prize the library book collection of Mithridates King of Pontus. In other words the origin of significant private libraries in Rome was due to spoils of war in the Hellenistic East"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1991952339599859864)  2025-11-21T19:30Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"According to Plutarch Alexander took with him Aristotle's annotated copy of Homer's Iliad aka "The Iliad of the Casket" for after judging a coffer the most precious of King Darius' treasures Alexander declared that only 'The Iliad' was worthy of being placed inside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1992289158455296076)  2025-11-22T17:48Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Marble portrait head of Alexander the Great Hellenistic ca. [---] BC - [---] BC said to be found in Alexandria at the British Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1992289670558879788)  2025-11-22T17:50Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the spellbinding nocturnal piano sounds of Debussy's Rverie performed by Walter Gieseking one of his great interpreters in this [----] recording. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993496010958762222)  2025-11-26T01:44Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the exquisite piano sounds of Debussy's Rverie performed by Walter Gieseking in this [----] LP recording. One of my all-time favorite piano pieces https://youtu.be/K0KIrpvIdXUsi=NTxp7VY6ZI6nPLO5 https://youtu.be/K0KIrpvIdXUsi=NTxp7VY6ZI6nPLO5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993498216109932575)  2025-11-26T01:53Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"On the Pleasure of Reading in Bed The true pleasure of reading in bed occurs elusively when we fall into a gentle slumber in between moon-shaded pages and those last read words enter our dreams hushed past its horn-ivory gates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993529995868971014)  2025-11-26T03:59Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The above painting is titled 'Sleep' [----] oil on canvas by English painter William Powell Frith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993531877110792204)  2025-11-26T04:06Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. In Book XIX of Homer's Odyssey Penelope tells an still unrecognizable Odysseus that there are two gates for mortal dreams one made of ivory and the other of horn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993536415460688311)  2025-11-26T04:24Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S#2 This is my latest meditation on books & reading which is part of a larger poetic-philosophical series titled "Reflections on the Undiscovered." Thank you all for your continuous reading"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993538986519019912)  2025-11-26T04:35Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"For centuries avid readers have practiced bibliomancy or "divination by books": opening random pages that would foretell events or show them a truth hidden from their mortal eyes. Roman emperors like Hadrian used the Aeneid & Iliad i.e. Virgilian & Homeric Lots as divination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993807758811124195)  2025-11-26T22:23Z 17K followers, 14.1K engagements


"Legend says Hadrian used Sortes Vergilianae & drew Aeneid VI [---] predicting his adoption by Trajan & succession to Roman imperial throne:"Crowned with an olive wreath. I know his snowy hair his beard-the first king to found our Rome on laws.Numa .to wield imperial power""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993809064552231205)  2025-11-26T22:28Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The above image shows a Bronze Head of Emperor Hadrian detail dated from the Roman Britain era 2nd century AD & found in the river Thames in 1834-at the British Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1993811183812661540)  2025-11-26T22:36Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"The English author & critic John Ruskin once asserted that you would be a better reader or a more educated person if you read books closely specifically at the meaning of words instead of rushing through hundreds of books in the British Museum and still remain "illiterate""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1994631337446142322)  2025-11-29T04:55Z 17K followers, 15.5K engagements


"The above quoted passage appears in 'The Works of John Ruskin' Honorary Student of Christ Church Oxford: Sesame and lilies. Rev. and enl. ed. [----] (ed. 1871)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1994631982873985084)  2025-11-29T04:58Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the Andante in Hovhaness' Symphony No. [--] 'Mysterious Mountain'. This music visualizes a Mountain as the mystical link b/t Heaven & Earth yet its enigma remains unresolved A fantastic [----] Lp recording by Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orch. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1994927152144240993)  2025-11-30T00:31Z 16.8K followers, [----] engagements


"In these two poem stanzas Wordsworth captures the true essence of the Romantics in which the blessed cheerfulness of the natural world not "the a dull and endless strife" of books is the wiser teacher of man:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1995979355399336350)  2025-12-02T22:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


""Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking (that) makes what we read ours." -John Locke-Reading 'Of the Conduct of the Understanding' 1706"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1996067907315663298)  2025-12-03T04:04Z 16.9K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Interiorize your book readings & retain knowledge by becoming an active reader/learner not a passive one i.e.ask questions develop ideas and thus become a thinker. *Here you can read John Locke's chapter on "Reading" from his [----] book "Of the Conduct of the Understanding""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1996069900323094652)  2025-12-03T04:12Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The above photograph is titled 'New York books scattered on sidewalk' [----] by Andr Kertsz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1996420359227392132)  2025-12-04T03:24Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. This quote by Auden about books we remember & those we forget reminds me of Pliny the Elder's Latin maxim: Nullum esse librum tam malum ut non in aliqua parte prodesset "There is no book so bad that some good could not be got out of it.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1996431313356878012)  2025-12-04T04:08Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the unrivaled sublimity of the Aria in Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' (1741) Masterfully played by an older Glenn Gould recorded in [----] with an autumnal contemplative tempo which I personally preferred to the energetic one in [----]. Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1996676891969757330)  2025-12-04T20:24Z 17K followers, 18.2K engagements


"Listening now to the fantastic Allegro Con Fuoco from Dvok Symphony no. [--] 'New World Symphony' conducted by Sir Georg Solti & the Chicago Symphony Orch. (1984 Lp) A masterpiece of orchestration & musicality. A call to adventure in terra incognita Unforgettable Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1998090904373178608)  2025-12-08T18:02Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can read Washington Irving beautifully written [----] essay 'Roscoe' dedicated to the English historian William Roscoe who loved his books as his true friends: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2048/2048-h/2048-h.htm#link2H_4_0006 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2048/2048-h/2048-h.htm#link2H_4_0006"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1998241740587933917)  2025-12-09T04:02Z 17K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. I'm currently re-reading some of the wonderful essays & stories in Washington Irving's 'The Sketch Book' (1819-1820) which includes: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" "Rip Van Winkle" & "The Art of Book-Making" *My c.1890s vintage pocket edition of W. Irving's 'Sketch Book'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1998249595005276337)  2025-12-09T04:33Z 17K followers, [---] engagements


"Listening now to the sublime Larghetto in Handel's Organ Concerto No.1 In G Minor (1735) played by Peter Hurford (organ) w/ Concertgebouw Chamber Orch. conducted by Joshua Rifkin (1986 Lp) *During his lifetime Handel was considered a great organist playing his own works.Enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1998814102043472231)  2025-12-10T17:56Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"Here you can listen to the complete Handel's Organ Concerto No.1 In G Minor (1735) played by Peter Hurford (organ) with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orch. conducted by Joshua Rifkin (1986 digital Lp recording) Wonderful https://youtu.be/vZzU0NCCQvQsi=HFfb4myLxq15SFZk https://youtu.be/vZzU0NCCQvQsi=HFfb4myLxq15SFZk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1998816022086730215)  2025-12-10T18:04Z 17K followers, [---] engagements


"My first book gift recommendation: "The Book Lovers' Anthology: A Compendium of Writing about Books Readers & Libraries" (2014) edited by the Bodleian Library University of Oxford. A delightful anthology of passages for bibliophiles & a wonderful bedside companion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1999191780219142452)  2025-12-11T18:57Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"My 2nd book gift recommendation: Homer's The "Iliad" and The "Odyssey": A Biography (2007) by Alberto Manguel An erudite exploration of the two Homeric epics influence across the ages. A fantastic addition to your Classical library collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1999220323107959134)  2025-12-11T20:50Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"My 4th book gift recommendation: 'Watermark' (1992) by Joseph Brodsky Venice in winter seen through the poet's keen eye via lyrical meditations on self time & oblivion in a city of water illusions mirroring our regret & expectation yet as "we (mortals) go.beauty stays.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1999292604660482352)  2025-12-12T01:37Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"My 6th book gift recommendation (bonus): 'Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga' (2011) by Sylvain Tesson French traveler Tesson heard Thoreau's call of solitude books and leave behind "the mass of men (who) lead lives of quiet desperation.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/1999690673172414788)  2025-12-13T03:59Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"The above quote was recorded by Polybius in his Histories (The Fall of Carthage) & also in Plutarch's Apophthegmata. *The above photo shows the ruins of the Roman Forum undated vintage photograph"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000052956247277593)  2025-12-14T03:59Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"In his Punica Appian tells us Scipio The Younger recited Homers Iliad: Troy's prophetic destruction "Aday will come when sacred Troy shall perish and Priam and his people shall be slain" Like all things humantoday is Carthages end Scipio declared one day might be Romes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000055242100990024)  2025-12-14T04:08Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"This painting by Chardin visualizes the Latin maxim Homo Bulla or "man is but a bubble".Human life is vanity like a thin soap bubble that first flickers with colors for a brief moment then quickly bursts & vanishes like it never existed. -Jean Simon Chardin-Soap Bubbles c. 1733"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000369056927695281)  2025-12-15T00:55Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"P.S. The Latin expression Homo Bulla or "man is a bubble" was first coined by the 1st c. BC Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro found in his only extant complete work: Rerum rusticarum libri tres (Three Books on Agriculture)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000369981616451875)  2025-12-15T00:59Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


""The mind conquers everything; it even gives strength to the body." Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit -Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto 'Letters (in exile) from theBlack Sea'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000692571497001374)  2025-12-15T22:20Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


""Postponing the hour of right living is like the fool waiting until the river flows past." Qui vivendi recti prorogat horam rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis. -HoraceEpistles [--]. 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000768710642974729)  2025-12-16T03:23Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"P.S. The context of Horace's Epistle is his exhortation "dare to know"/"to be wise" (sapere aude) in a parable where a fool waits for a stream to stop before crossing ( "not daring to be wise") yet the stream will ever go on forever (Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2000769536442659244)  2025-12-16T03:26Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Did you know the prescient phrase "brave new world" was written by Shakespeare in 'The Tempest' where Miranda whose name derives from the Latin mirari "to wonder at" is symbolic of her eyes which are unaware of evil discovers a "brave new world" *John W. Waterhouse-Miranda 1916"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001304721810698665)  2025-12-17T14:53Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


""This above all: to thine own self be true And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man." -Shakespeare Hamlet Act I Scene III advice given by Polonius to his son Laertes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001470640100925490)  2025-12-18T01:52Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"A presumed self-portraitdrawing of Annibale Carracci ca. 1575-80 Black and white chalks on blue-grey paper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001470919752184139)  2025-12-18T01:53Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


""We make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion." -Shakespeare-'King Lear' Act [--] Scene 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001513416096202920)  2025-12-18T04:42Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"In Etymologiae III.LXXi Isidore of Seville tells us the Names of the Stars & Reasons for Names (De nominibus stellarum quibus ex causis nomina acceperunt) "Constellations (sidus) are so named because sailors 'take bearings on' (considerare) them when they set their course.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001838145298665948)  2025-12-19T02:13Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Planets were sons of Eos (goddess of Dawn).These are their Greek names & Roman gods equivalent: Phaenon "shining one" (Saturn) Phaethon "radiant" (Jupiter) Pyroeis "fiery" (Mars) Stilbon "gleaming" (Mercury) Phosphorus('light-bearer') (Venus) Hesperus ("evening") (Venus)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001839295540384218)  2025-12-19T02:17Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"P.S. To ancient Greek & Roman astronomers they were five known naked-eyeplanets: Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter & Saturn that's why Uranus & Neptune weren't for they were too distant to be recognized as planets until the invention of powerful telescopes in the 1700s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001840686849740852)  2025-12-19T02:23Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The above photo shows a fragment of a Greek Ionic column at Delphi beneath the night sky taken by astrophotographer Loukas Hapsis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2001876655879655502)  2025-12-19T04:46Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


""Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination." -Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals [----] *Two boys in Mykonos island [----] photo by Dimitris Harissiadis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2002858634485916051)  2025-12-21T21:48Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Kant further expands on his concept of happiness and why our human pursuit is so challenging for happiness is "indefinite" thus it cannot be rationally "determine(d) with certainty what would make him (one) truly happy; because to do so he would need to be omniscient""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeraCausa9/status/2002860886982349267)  2025-12-21T21:57Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements

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