fluch-motif

Updated: May 27, 2025

Flattery had lost its charm, but the Fluch-motif went home. Adams had been carried with the tide till Brunhilde had become a habit and Ternina an ally. He too had played with anarchy; though not with socialism, which, to young men who nourished artistic emotions under the dome of the Pantheon, seemed hopelessly bourgeois, and lowest middle-class.

Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams