THE NP CHRONICLE : 6TH JUNE

               The NP Chronicle 

                         6th June 

"Tolerance becomes crime when applied to evil."

-- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain 

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain 

"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

                         -- Thomas Mann

"I've lived to bury my desires

and see my dreams corrode with rust

now all that's left are fruitless fires

that burn my empty heart to dust.

Struck by the clouds of cruel fate

My crown of Summer bloom is sere

Alone and sad, I watch and wait

And wonder if the end is near.

As conquered by the last cold air

When Winter whistles in the wind

Alone upon a branch that's bare

A trembling leaf is left behind.

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I have outlasted all desire,

My dreams and I have grown apart;

My grief alone is left entire,

The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation

Have struck my flowery garland numb,

I live in lonely desolation

And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted

By tardy winter's whistling chill,

A single leaf which has outlasted

Its season will be trembling still."

                         -- Alexander Pushkin

Today is:

▪︎ UN Russian Language Day

▪︎ World Pest Day

▪︎ National Day of Sweden

▪︎ Memorial Day in South Africa 

▪︎ Engineer's Day in Taiwan

▪︎ Birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, Thomas Mann, Sunil Dutt 

▪︎ Death anniversary of Carl Jung, Jeremy Bentham, Patrick Henry, Sir John A. Macdonald, J. Paul Getty