So for the past month or so I have been going through a gruelingly angst-ridden Beethoven phase.

Soon enough it’ll be all about Mozart again. And I still am offended by some of the harmonies that Beethoven chooses. But these piano sonatas….They certainly reflect something in me that I don’t very much get from Mozart.

Mozart, I think, is the reflection of all emotion without context- emotion in its pure form. It is that indescribable thing we strive for. Whereas Beethoven, given his temperament and placement in history, takes these emotions out of the heavens and makes them quite human.

I’ve often compared the Mozart-Beethoven dichotomy with that of Plato and Aristotle. Never more than here has that been relevant. 

furryham:

Dear Germany,

Thank you for the Milchbrötchen. Thank you so much.

RIGHT

dysenterygay:

i asked my italian grandfather if the rough parts of italy were called the spaghetto and look at me w/ so much shame 

givemetrills:

Deceptive cadences are why I have trust issues