Fouche after Waterloo defeat. I have no idea what he’s saying but who cares. He also speaks incredibly fast. Gustaf Gründgens in Hundert Tage on youtube.
Update: @josefavomjaaga kindly translated this which means “Napoleon must abdicate at once and I will be the head of a provisional government!”
Time unfolds around us. An endless salt flat. I look at Shawn. At his life, stretched out from horizon to horizon. Shawn at every age. At five. At fifteen. At bible camp...
I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father’s hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life to arrive again and again, with the same sense of unreality, at the damned horrors of the evening.
...And suspended all around me, I see all the moments of my life. I see myself in the moment before everything changed.
And I see my mother. Collapsed on the floor, too sick to move. And I see my father. And his madness. And I see the dead. I see the dead. I see my dead.
So I look to the future, but I see my face become my mother's.
Salt Palace, The Bengsons // The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Every year I start a new general playlist, but I keep the top 5 songs from the previous year. I am always looking for new recommendations! And I would love to hear what you guys listened to this year.
So please reblog and list the top 5 or 10 songs you listened to this year! I will go ahead and start.
1) "Hundred Days" by The Bengsongs
2) "Dynasties and Dystopias" by Denzel Curry
3) "W.I.T.C.H." by Devon Cole
4) "Shine a Little Light" by The Black Keys
5) "Feed the Machine" by Poor Man's Poison
6) "Cups" by Off The Record
7) "Enemy" by Imagine Dragons (I listened to the Arcane sound track a lot apparently)
8) "It Took Me By Surprise" by Maria Mena
9) "Machine" by Imagine Dragons
10) "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede
Honorable mention: "Songs I Can't Listen too" by Neon Trees. The top of my 2022 playlist.
On arriving at Paris, three days after Waterloo, Napoleon still clung to the hope of concerted national resistance, but the temper of the chambers and of the public generally forbade any such attempt. Napoleon and his brother Lucien Bonaparte were almost alone in believing that, by dissolving the chambers and declaring Napoleon dictator, they could save France from the armies of the powers now converging on Paris. Even Davout, minister of war, advised Napoleon that the destiny of France rested solely with the chambers. Clearly, it was time to safeguard what remained, and that could best be done under Talleyrand's shield of legitimacy.[48] Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès was the minister of justice during this time and was a close confidant of Napoleon.[49]
Napoleon himself at last recognised the truth. When Lucien pressed him to "dare", he replied, "Alas, I have dared only too much already". On 22 June 1815 he abdicated in favour of his son, Napoleon II, well knowing that it was a formality, as his four-year-old son was in Austria.
Look at this friend I made on my way home the other day! What a glorious creature! So gracile and smooth! Truly a peak being. What a privilege it is to share this time in Earth’s history with creatures like this.
I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it
they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons
and musical instruments
And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses
And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them