Death in Venice

 "Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. 

Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, 

and desire is a product of lacking knowledge."

-Thomas Mann 

Death in Venice

By: Luchino Visconti

Based on the novella of Thomas Mann

Customs by: Piero Tosi

"It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! 

bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!"

-Thomas Mann 

Adagietto

Symphony V, movement IV

Gustav Mahler