personal identifying

Doch dieser Schwelle Zauber zu zerspalten

Bedarf ich eines Rattenzahns.

Noch eiaen Biss, so ist’s geschehn!

[But to break through the magic of this threshold

I need a rat's tooth. (He conjures up a rat.)

Another bite, and it is done!]

Er sieht in der geschwollen Ratte

Sein ganz naturlich Ebenbild.

[For in the bloated rat he sees

A living likness of himself]

- Respectively – Goethe, Faust, Part I; Faust, Part I., Scene in Auerbach’s Cellar -

lost love

“When the cathedral bells struck seven, there was a single, limpid star in the rose-colored sky, a ship called out a disconsolate farewell, and in my throat I felt the Gordian knot of all the loves that might have been and weren’t. I could not bear anymore.”

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of my Melencholy Whores, 53 -