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[Anonymous No.15219753]

Literature capturing this feeling?

[Anonymous No.15219807]

>Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, an eighteenth-century Göttingen mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, is remembered for the satiric aphorisms he wrote in his spare time, which have been celebrated by luminaries from Nietzsche to Einstein. He was also a dwarf and a hunchback, attributes crucial to this lively fictionalization of his life by the late German novelist, which charts Lichtenberg’s love affair with the progress of civilization and, in parallel, his failure to find a wife. Hofmann gives the scientist a delirious, childish glee at the universe’s workings, and a sweetness of character that, true to Lichtenberg’s biography, eventually wins him the love of a thirteen-year-old beauty. The author shares with his hero a gift for the epigram, which makes the book seem at first a rather weightless affair. But a mass of loneliness and longing just beneath the comedy keeps it from floating away.

[Anonymous No.15220060]

>>15219807
kinda based

[Anonymous No.15220165]

[Anonymous No.15220202]

>>15220060

Yeah, I think it's kind of cute. They should make a historical manga about it.

>Like many an oddball in his era, Lichtenberg had an irregular private life, which included his courting, at the age of 35, a 13-year-old named Maria Stechard, who eventually agreed to live with him. Gert Hofmann’s lovely, fable-like novel Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl imagines their domestic situation and the frenzied, tender thoughts that ran through Lichtenberg’s mind as he fell in love with his “heart beetle.”

>Lichtenberg was a dwarfish hunchback embarrassed by his appearance, and in Hofmann’s story his excitement that a young girl might take an interest in him is barely containable: “Something has happened, all of a sudden!” he writes to a friend. “I’ve met a girl, a girl, a girl, a girl!” Naturally, he takes on the “Stechardess” as a student, and she provides the professor with a semblance of domestic stability. When Lichtenberg is called away from home by King George III to survey his land holdings, the Stechardess is devastated, but when he returns, the two remain anchored to Lichtenberg’s apartment, particularly his four-poster bed: “Let’s creep back to where we lately emerged from with tired eyes,” he says to his inamorata. By the book’s end, with the Stechardess violently ill, this man of reason is forced to contemplate the ephemeral nature of love—which, of course, exceeds all rational thought.

[Anonymous No.15220310]

Why yes, I do have a lifetime COMIC LO subscription, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.15220385]

>>15220310

Be careful.

>Christopher Handley, the Iowa man on trial for possessing manga "drawings of children being sexually abused," was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison.

>When law officials searched Handley's home, they seized more than 1,200 items, including manga and other documents. However, most were returned to Handley after they were determined to not "constitute or contain contraband." More than 80 books were retained. Court documents revealed that many of the books retained were from the anthology Comic LO (LO meaning "Lolita Only").

[Anonymous No.15220648]

>>15220385
>Tfw I want to buy a copy of The Carriage of Bradherley but don't want the idiots at US customs to confuse it for porn and get me in trouble.

[Anonymous No.15221423]

Jun Eto