<- Click here"For beauty's nothing but the beginning of terror." - Rainer Maria Rilke
Sigh, don't you love great German poets? Explode-the-milk-through-your-nose FUNNNNY! You get the feeling that Rainer Maria Rilke had a dazzlingly pretty mother... Who gave him that middle name.
Which wasn't totally funny in high school. Um, well not to Rainer Maria Rilke. I've always thought, as I read Rilke, that his mommy's beauty probably talked his dad into a lots of stuff. Like naming his boy, Maria. Which results in either a totally tough youngster... or a kick-ass sour poet. I'm guessing that Rainer wasn't what women call a bad boy, huh?
2 comments:
Wow, aloof! Another mannequin from Italy?
As to Maria, well, that name was not so uncommon in nobility, and it is still not so uncommon in southern countries. I have no examples at hand, but there is a way in which e.g. the Spaniards see a name like Jesus not so much as a token of identity than as an adornment. It would be pretty impossible to name a boy Jesus around here, but in Spain it's OK.
Any way. Love this image.
Yes, Maria is not an uncommon middle name in southern Germany, especially southern Bavaria, and Austria - two catholic strongholds. It's totally different from Johnny Cash's 'Boy named Sue', no feminine connotation with it at all.
Great image - well sought out development from a illustration to a real impression.
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