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Hmm... is this how one translates ‘Il était maniaque’? Asking for a friend!
— Mar 30, 2026 04:02AM
He had some peculiar ways.
Hmm... is this how one translates ‘Il était maniaque’? Asking for a friend!
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Whenever he heard sounds of crying during the night, he would make his way upstairs with a lighted candle and, kneeling between his little girls’ beds, start singing:
— Mar 30, 2026 04:27AM
Madeleine lived all alone in a caveOr:
Grieving and sighing day and night...
He died a pauper and I am living as he died
And the gold
Slumbers
In the marbled palace where the king is still playing
W.D. Clarke
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One of his pupils...declared that Ste.Colombe contrived to imitate all the inflexions of the human voice: from the sigh of a young lady to the sob of an old man, from the war cry of Henri de Navarre to the soft breathing of a child trying to draw something, from the distracted groan sometimes produced by sexual pleasure to the almost voiceless gravity, deprived of nearly all force &harmony, of a man lost in prayer
— Mar 25, 2026 05:09AM
