Title: Barock
Pairing: none
Rating: K plus
Summary: Ludwig tries to learn more about his old literature without success.
Author Note: For references pay Wiki a visit; German literature reflects pretty well its nation's history - especially the old periods.
The Baroque period was influenced by the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648; started as a religion war but drew in almost every existing power in Europe) and its poems are either about loving life to the extreme - 'cause you can die any moment - or putting your faith in Heaven and God - where you hopefully end up when you die.
I hope that is enough background info :).
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Old pages, yellow and rusty when he turns them over, decorated with fine letters, black and in hand writings he has never seen before, pictures of kings from times he doesn't know anything of, dates and notices which makes him dizzy when he just thinks about how old they are.
And the poems…
About death and the unbreakable wish to live until the world is no more, about so much blood and hurt and war, about the love for simple things like beer and woman or just a sunny day and everywhere the looming figure of the death behind the sentences…
What has he missed, when did they fear live so much that they had to glorify the holy empire of God to keep going on?
Why hasn't he been there? …More exactly, where had he been?
Thoughtful Ludwig brushes his finger tips over the old greaseproof papers as the sun shines into the library, soft sunny light strays ghosting over thousand of forgotten memories he can't feel inside of him – never has, no matter how hard he wants to remember.
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