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Beloved – never before have I seen my stars shoot across the sky in such wild storms; never before has my soul swept its wings further towards you; never before have my arms stretched out more painfully towards you; never before have I seen the glory that my longing kindles around your head flicker so bloodily as now that you have sunk into the oceans of eternity for me. Beloved! Here are my dreams! Around your feet I wind the wreaths that my heavy happiness has woven – Here is my heart – my heart! I place my heart in your hands!

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And I felt the meaning of my paintings more clearly and more surely. The landscape unfolded into a deep, profound, enigmatic eye. A white, gleaming giant’s body emerged from the seashore; like a wound, its lustful body welled up out of the dusk, a mystical mouth. The woman emerged from all the frames of my paintings, the strange will of the world, the all-mother, the ruler:
Mylitta, the Babylonian whore who never satisfied a desire, who consigned the favored one to the flames –
Isis, who gave birth to a sun in immaculate conception: no mortal lifted her skirts! Isis, the mother of kings, wife of the lunar bull, the sacred cow, the queen of the whole earth –
Athena, who never saw the darkness of the mother’s womb, born from the light realm of the brain –

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The ice could break at any moment and he could plunge into the abyss with Hanka, but what did he care?
His soul glowed with happiness.
And his soul laughed with happiness that he had finally found this Thule, millions of years away, where, after all the misery of his life, he wanted to drink the cup of happiness and love that the Knights of the Grail had once emptied.
He could not distinguish reality from dream, but suddenly he felt such power and such a sense of self and such faith in himself that it seemed to him as if he too could cross the Red Sea with dry feet like Moses once did, that he could plant mountains and fertilize deserts.
Hanka snuggled ever closer to him with boundless love, the snow sparkled, the lid of the snow coffin began to burst, the ice sheet gave way, but Czerkaski whispered softly:
“This is life – life.”

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In This Valley of Tears

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This beautiful short story by Stanislaw Przybyszewski is very haunting and speaks of eternal love and soulmates and the eternal torment of trying to find each other.

Night over the sea! The deep darkens from the black clouds; two stars struggle through the night with pale light and spray glittering frost onto the sea. Red-hot rings of haze grow around two stars; they grow, clump into clouds, the stars go out and curl deep into the sky like volcanic craters.

A lurking silence hovers in the red haze of the sky; but already the craters are opening up and streams of fire shoot down into the water in a spraying rod vibration. For a moment the sea stands in towering flames, throwing its fiery arms fiercely up into the sky, the darkness flees in luminous swathes; but already the wonder dies away, the sky burns up, and on the darkness of the sea two pale stars twinkle like glittering frost.
It happened that night.

This is translated for the first time into English by Joe E Bandel and part of his Przybyszewski series of translations.

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Der Orchideengarten Vol 2, No 4 contains the following stories and poems: The Air Column by Ossian Elgstrom; The Locomotive by Leopold Plaichinger; Mischa Strongin’s Seven Trials by Alexander Poljenow; Galvanostegia by Hanns Wohlbold. Translation by Joe E Bandel. Layout and design by John Hirschhorn-Smith. This is the first time these stories have been translated into the English language. Original art is included.

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Der Orchideengarten Vol 2, No. 3 contains the following stories and poems: The Ball by Prince Vladimir Odoyevski; The Last Guest by Paul Altheer; The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe; Ball Night by Karl Hans Strobl. Translation by Joe E. Bandel and layout by John Hirschhorn-Smith. This is the first English translation of this magazine.

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The OAK Matrix: Dance of Opposites is truly my Magnum Opus. It represents a long lifetime of searching and stitching threads together. This book is a confession, a dream, a dare. It’s the story of a theory I’ve stitched together over years—a Frankenstein’s patchwork of opposites, love, and the raw pulse of life. I call it the OAK Matrix, a General Unified Field Theory not of cold equations but of warm, breathing truths: that duality—male and female, spirit and matter, chaos and order—isn’t war, but a loving embrace; that our egos and souls grow not in isolation, but through the messy, sacred bonds of relationship; that what we’ve torn apart as opposites can heal us when held as one. Duality of Opposites and Love and not Duality of Opposites and war. Epub version.

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Simplicissimus Vol 1 No. 5 was first published in 1896 in the German language. This is the first English language translation by Joe E Bandel. It contains the original stories and art as much as possible but in epub format. The stories and poems include: ‘A fin de siecle Daughter’ by S. von Schewitsch; ‘Peace’ by Emil Feshkau; ‘Mother Song’s’ by Mia Holm; ‘Ludwig Feurbach’ by Georg Herwegh; and ‘Father’ by F. Countess von Reventlow. The first 10 issues are free on my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/posts/simplicissimus-1-121674177

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Jugend Vol 1 No. 4 was published in the German language in 1896 and is now translated into English for the first time by Joe E Bandel. Stories and poems in this issue include several untitled pieces including two long stories by A. Wohlmuth and F. von Ostini. Shorter stories include ‘The Two Tops’ by L. Wetzler; ‘Regional Flavor’ by Conrad Alberti and ‘The Lorelei’ by Ki-Ki-Ki. The first 10 issues are free so check them out and see what they are about.

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Simplicissimus Vol 1 No. 4

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Simplicissumus was first published in the German language as a weekly arts magazine and ran for over forty years. This issue contains the stories and poems: The Voice of Life by Knut Hamsun; To the German Youth; To the Philosophical Rival; The Three Stars by Georg Herwegh; Pythia by Thomas Pen; Strivers Song by Fritz Hauthner; Old Frame by Arthur Holitscher; A Very Small Story by Ernst Brull; The Begger by Marcel Prevost; and an unnamed poem by Jakob Wassermann. Translations are by Joe Bandel. The first 10 issues of this magazine are free on my patreon page.

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