She sighed in the dark. "What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
"I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.

J.Kerouac - On the Road (p.57)


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Les voix instructives exilées... L'ingénuité physique amèrement rassise... - Adagio -Ah! l'égoïsme infini de l'adolescence, l'optimisme studieux..

* Instructive voices exiled... Physical candor bitterly quelled...
- Adagio. -Ah! the infinite egotism of adolescence, the studious optimism..

* Acı bir biçimde yitirilen bedensel saflık... - Adagio. -Ah! sonsuz bencilliği yeniyetmeliğin, çalışkan iyimserlik..

Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations (1872)


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<sub>I've always wanted to make a work named "Adagio", a touching word in Italian. I used Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings for my models motivation.



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