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   play in progress (playinprogress@assemblag.es)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 09:49:36 JST play in progress

   • Girl on the Net

   A couple of days ago @girlonthenet linked to a posting about "the romance of being single", and I found much beauty in it, and it made me ache for London where I had many days just like the ones she describes (sans bike).

   https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/single-life-romance/

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     play in progress (playinprogress@assemblag.es)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 09:49:35 JST play in progress

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     But it also got me thinking about how much of what she describes as the pleasures of freedom don't require singledom so much as just *not cohabiting* and maybe not doing the whole daily messaging song and dance. And living that life is possible both within and without romantic relationships, no?

     And then that Rilke quote came to my mind,

     "I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. "

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 09:50:52 JST simsa03

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     • tinydoctor
     "I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. "
     
     From which poem of Rilke is that line?
     
     cc @tinydoctor
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     play in progress (playinprogress@assemblag.es)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 17:55:22 JST play in progress

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 I don't think it is from a poem, iirc it is from 'Letters to a Young Poet', quoted among other places here: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/09/03/rilke-love-marriage/

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 21:43:26 JST simsa03

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     Thank you.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 01:49:34 JST tinydoctor

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 @playinprogress Yes, I was about post that.