In Broken Venice, Thomas Mann muses on the relationship between beauty and death, and the delicate wreckage of this water city is a symbolic combination of the ideal of beauty and the shadow of the plague
Our protagonist, the great writer who has been rational and prudent all his life, suffered from the torture of beautiful teenagers and was doomed, so he recalled the assertion of the Greek sages about beauty:
"They say that the sun shines and dazzles the eyes
It confuses the intellect and the memory, it drives the soul to ecstasy in pursuit of pleasure, and clings to the most beautiful things it illuminates
Yes, it is only possible to raise people's minds to a higher level by means of a certain form
Seriously, Eros is like a mathematician, in order to teach purely formal concepts to naive children, graphics must be used to aid understanding
The same is true of God, in order to clearly show us spirituality, he uses the body and skin color of young people to paint in various beautiful colors, so that people will never forget
And after seeing it, it can not help but make people full of sadness, and at the same time ignite the fire of hope. "
I think I will always be infatuated with beautiful boys. Unfortunately, the lives of beautiful boys are always like Adonis who cannot be resurrected. "They are the outcasts of the world, the victims of innocence and eternal youth in the decaying adult world." I long for beauty It is eternal, but passing and dying seem to be the ultimate meaning of beauty.
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