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howifeltabouthim · 4 months

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I thank you for everything. I am sorry for everything, and I remain Yours respectfully . . .

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room

#letter #signoff #apology #sorry #regret #thanks #gratitude #moving #finality #closure #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #l.p. hartley #the harness room

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deadpoetsmusings · 1 year

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The Go-Between (2015) dir. Pete Travis

“There’s no spell or curse except an unloving heart.”

#a pretty adaptation but doesn't pack that extra punch the novel does #the go between #l.p. hartley #pete travis #adaptations #movie adaptation #jack hollington #lesley manville #bbc #book to screen #screen cap #movie stills #filmtvdaily #cinema #cinematography #film stills #movies #userfilm

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the-final-sentence · 4 months

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Her husband acknowledged the letter, but he did not suggest another meeting.

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room

#lit #prose #submission #The Harness Room #L.P. Hartley

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thehappyscavenger · 1 year

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Books Read in February 2023

Another high-volume month!

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Well this was whelming. I don’t remember why I requested this but apparently it’s a super popular book and I can see why. A super digestible novel about a 35 year old woman who is depressed and feels she has nothing going for her and decides to try to kill herself and ends up in the titular library which is full of possible lives she might have lived. From here on out it gets super predictable. She tries out a supposedly “great” life, it turns out their are pitfalls, she leaves and tries another life.

Fine enough but not really exciting in any way.

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

I heard so many mixed reviews for this one but the thing that convinced me to give it a shot was so many people describing it as a flawed masterpiece. I loved it! It’s less a novel than three repeating stories told roughly 100 years apart with characters with the same names (but different characteristics). It focuses on grandparents whose children have, through death or incompetence, failed to raise their own children leaving it to the grandparents to raise their grandkids. There’s background stuff about pandemics, states becoming more fascistic but I found the repeated grandparent/grandchild recurring motif the most fascinating. I can see why some people don’t like this or find it “messy” but to me Yanagihara seemed totally in control of her prose and I loved it.

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

While this had some real bangers in terms of writing I found this mostly to be a slog. It’s about a man reflecting back on the summer of 1900 when he sort of “lost his innocence” as a child and got entangled giving messages between his friend’s older sister and her lover, a local farmer. Set up is slooooow and the ending is rushed. Will say that while reading this I thought there was no way Ian McEwan wasn’t inspired by this for the first part of Atonement and he’s said so in interviews so I was right! I really like McEwan’s re-interpretation of events over this book.

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

Mixed feelings about this one. This was a bit harder scifi then I’m used to and fell into the typical hard scifi trap of interesting ideas with terrible writing.

Set at time periods 1000 years apart and heavily based on Mayan culture the novel follows a set of twin siblings, a young Minnesotan teen, and a group of genetically modified humans living in a post-climate catastrophe timeline as they each grapple with significant events in their lives. Byrne put a lot of research into this and I can tell she was trying, as white woman, to be careful about being respectful of past and present Mayan culture but she’s a Catholic and in some respects that really shows in her writing and ideas.

I did appreciate that by the last 150 or so pages I knew how the story was going to end up and it was a pleasure watching Byrne tie all the knots together. An interesting book.

The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes

This was popular on Tumblr when it came out circa 2014 and it’s taken until then for me to read it. A very slim novel set in Ohio the book follows an unnamed narrator who works for an obscure cinema revue who travels to a motel to visit Roberto Laing, a film prof who burned a number of obscure works by famous directors but can recount them in detail. All the films involve loss, mystery, persecution etc. The book reads like a trippy film noir and is more mood than plot. Recommend for people who describe themselves as “cinephiles”.

#The Midnight Library #Matt Haig #The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing #Nicholas Rombes #The Actual Star #Monica Byrne #Currently reading #L.P. Hartley #The Go Between #To Paradise #Hanya Yanagihara

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pastnotfuture · 1 year

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I should be sitting in another room, rainbow-hued, looking not into the past but into the future: and I should not be sitting alone.

The Go-Between. L.P. Hartley

#L.P. Hartley #books #quotes #literature #excerpts #sitting #room #rainbow #past #furture #lonely #loneliness #sad #tragic #life #feelings #emotions #alone

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badgaymovies · 2 years

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The Hireling (1973)

ALAN BRIDGES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5 United Kingdom, 1973. Columbia Pictures, World Film Services. Screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the novel by L.P. Hartley. Cinematography by Michael Reed. Produced by Ben Arbeid. Music by Marc Wilkinson. Production Design by Natasha Kroll. Costume Design by Phyllis Dalton. Film Editing by Peter Weatherley. Class stratification goes hand in hand…

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notesonfilm1 · 2 years

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L. P. Hartley’s THE HARNESS ROOM (L.P. Hartley, 1971; 2022)

P. Hartley’s THE HARNESS ROOM Thanks to Gregory Woods for his recommendation and for his introduction to the new edition, a model of clarity and concision: a lot’s packed into a few pages. It’s a very brief book, an easy read, and a potent evocation of a particular type of Englishness. Colonel Alex Macready, a widower with a 17 year old son fears his son Fergus lacks the aggressiveness…

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#70s homosexual fiction #L.P Hartley #The Harness Room

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cuntylestat · 2 years

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“the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” - l.p. hartley

#interview with the vampire #in other words yes i'm still insane about this

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historia-vitae-magistras · 2 months

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3 and 6 for Matt please

3) Who depends on them. & something they lost, but would love to have back

These days? No one lol. Every once in a blue moon, Alfred needs his emotional support canuck or some backup or another pair of hands or a second pair of eyes. He might smack Matt on the shoulder like, "what would I do with out you, dude?" but that's a shakey premise on a good day. Love doesn't correspond 1:1 with need. Arthur is much more enmeshed with Europe whether he likes it or not. Jack and Zee go into the Pacific whether he likes it or not.

The picture differed greatly between the early Cold War and World War Two. Matt was this incredibly important bridge between two empires. I think we, myself included, sleep on this as a community. But so do even Canadian historians, unless they have a taste for diplomatic history. Just how important Canada was not only to the Americans and the British as two entities but how little would have gotten done in the North Atlantic without the ability to keep shit running, and everyone getting along just gets lost in the more dramatic stories. No one will make a movie like Saving Private Ryan or Dunkirk about boring stuff like food logistics or submarine hunting. Or if they do, the protagonist is going to be an American. British units serving next to Americans all across the European theatre dragged Canadian officers with them to do what essentially became anglo-to-anglo translation. We have this picture from the top down of Churchill and Roosevelt, but on every level below that, Canada is the great facilitator. To the point it causes conflict with India, Australia, South Africa and France. Even the USSR got a bit miffed about the influence of Canada in the early UN. At one point, he was this hinge between the power brokers and held enormous power. It's a lot of emotional intelligence that my autistic ass is kind of shit at writing, but the sheer influence he held for about 20 years is just so intense.

There was also a time when he was absolutely indispensable to his father. Need a war crime committed? The spare is prepared. More than half of the UK's food between 1940 and 1944 was Canadian, including 77% of wheat. By '44, More than 45% of RAF ground crews? Canadian. More than a quarter of the pilots were also Canadian. The entire gold reserve of the British Empire was smuggled to Montreal quietly and competently even most economic historians don't even remember its a thing. If it was asked of him, he did it, and he did it well.

But that was a very long time ago now. And perhaps, as L.P. Hartley put it, the past is another country. And I think Matt of today misses that time. Not the blood and treasure lost, not the strain, and god knows not the empire or even the rest of it, really. But there was that snapshot in time where he spoke and was heard. Before the French decided the Francophone soul of Canada was again politically expedient and did their damndest to tear it out, Matt was in so many ways, a stupidly important power broker. But that was long before he became a negative space where any echo of what Americans are or are not sounds.

#the ask box || probis pateo #matthew || my country is winter

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steddiebang · 7 months

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An Act of Grace

Author: @daysarestranger l Artist: @bienmoreau Posting on Friday, November 3

On the morning after Broughton Hall’s annual summer fête, the body of a local Baron’s son was found on the grounds of the estate, as lifeless and cold as the morning was warm. Having spent the summer together, member of the household staff Edward Munson was the first to be suspected. As for the Baron’s son, perhaps there was more to him than the Baron would have society believe. Decades later, Max Mayfield comes across the murder of Steven Harrington while researching topics for the second season of her hit true crime podcast. Along with her some-time engineer and full-time ex-boyfriend, Lucas, Max uncovers a story of two people that, entwined in secrecy and truths left unspoken, reaches out across history.

Keep reading for a sneak preview!

Complete Transcript for the Undone Podcast, Season Two: An Act of Grace

This transcript is based on the Undone podcast produced by Glad-Well House and Mayclair Productions. Original audio files can be found on www.undone-podcast.com, Spotify, and other podcast distribution sites.

Link Episode 1

Title The Past is a Foreign Country

Original Release Date October 2nd 2023

[Intro music begins; fades]

MAYFIELD, NARRATING: ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ You know the quote, right? You might not know where it’s from, but you’ve heard of it. Heard people repeat it, with a shrug, lamenting the unfathomable manner in which us human beings used to behave, how we treated each other, what we used to believe. As if we, now—the enlightened—would never tolerate such things.

You and I know differently, of course.

[Door opening]

DUSTIN HENDERSON: Max, hi. Come in, come in.

MAYFIELD: Hey, Dustin, thanks. How you doing?

[Chairs scraping against the floor, a mug being set down on a table]

MAYFIELD: Oh, you’ve got a copy?

DUSTIN HENDERSON: ‘Course I do. A bunch. Everyone I know is getting one for Christmas.

MAYFIELD: You’ll be popular.

DUSTIN HENDERSON: [Snorting] Yeah.

[Pages turning]

DUSTIN HENDERSON: Here it is. [Clears throat] ‘I liked him, though. We all did … There was always something gentle about him.’ That’s nice, right? It’s what you’d want people to say about you.

MAYFIELD: Yeah. I guess you ’re right. That you were liked.

[Papers shuffling]

MAYFIELD, NARRATING: It’s the opening line to a novel. The quote, that is. A good one, actually. ‘The Go-Between’, written by L.P. Hartley in nineteen fifty-three. I’ve always liked the book, not for the opener, but for the way it portrays how the passage of time distorts things. How one event can happen early on in your life, and you can know with such certainty how it went down, only to look back on it ten, twenty, thirty years later and see something entirely different.

[Door hinges squeaking open]

MAYFIELD: You’ve left it in the attic?

DUSTIN HENDERSON: I thought you were coming tomorrow!

MAYFIELD: Don’t try to make it sound like I’m not organized, you’re the one who doesn’t know what day of the week it is.

[Boxes shifting, being dragged across the floor]

DUSTIN HENDERSON: It’s one of these, I made sure … You know, I was always having a go at Mum for being such a hoarder, but apparently she was onto something.

MAYFIELD: It’s the hoarders of this world that keep me in a job.

[Some grunting, more shifting]

MAYFIELD, NARRATING: The case I’ve been investigating for the past six months started in nineteen-twelve. Or, I suppose it started before that, but nineteen-twelve is when it really gets interesting.

The same year that Captain Scott and his expedition were beaten to the South Pole, all of them perishing on the return journey. The year that the Titanic struck an ice-berg in the middle of the Atlantic and sank, killing fifteen-hundred people. And the same year W.C. Handy published ‘Memphis Blues’, which went down in history as the first ever blues song.

On June ninth, nineteen-twelve, after the small village of Deeping Saint David’s annual summer festival, the son of the local Baron dies in the grounds of the family’s estate.

Steven Harrington’s body is discovered not long afterwards, and he is pronounced dead by a local doctor. His parents, Lord and Lady Avondale, immediately suspect foul play. The police are brought in to investigate and an arrest is made. Even with a cast of potential ne'er-do-wells, there was only ever one suspect pursued.

[Footsteps, something heavy being set on the ground]

DUSTIN HENDERSON: Let me give it a wipe.

[Blowing breath]

MAYFIELD: You got it? Oh, yeah, you’re right. I can’t believe the paintwork is still so good. It must be a hundred years’ old.

DUSTIN HENDERSON: One hundred and eleven years, three months and sixteen days. The date was written on the back.

MAYFIELD: [Whistle] It’s good, though. It looks just like the picture I saw.

DUSTIN HENDERSON: I said it did! That’s an aristocratic jawline if ever I saw one.

MAYFIELD: He was honorable. Like, officially.

DUSTIN HENDERSON: The Honorable Mister Steven Harrington. Does kind of have a ring to it I suppose.

MAYFIELD: Yeah. Handsome bastard.

[Laughter]

MAYFIELD, NARRATING: Six months ago, I hadn’t heard of Steven Harrington, or Eddie Munson. I didn’t have any reason to, to be fair. It’s not a particularly well-known case, even locally. There are a handful of books that cover the key points in the local library, a few of the volunteers at the Harringtons’ ancestral home—now a bustling attraction for weekenders and families alike—know the reported account. Even fewer question it. Because why would they? Edward Munson was a thief who stole from the estate, killed Harrington when he was interrupted, and made off with the money. He was found by police the next morning, arrested, and made a full confession.

A straight-forward case, all tied up in a neat bow. What is there to question?

[Two sets of footsteps walking on gravel]

MAYFIELD: Have you visited yet?

DUSTIN HENDERSON: Broughton? No, not yet. Mum’s talked about going, but they want to make it a group thing, so, organizing, you know.

MAYFIELD: You sound dubious.

DUSTIN HENDERSON: No. Not for me. I don’t know what she’ll make of it, though. What if it just bums her out?

MAYFIELD: It won’t. I don’t think it will, at least. I think it’ll be cathartic. Enlightening.

DUSTIN HENDERSON: Well, you would say that. You’ve got a podcast to sell.

MAYFIELD: Hey!

[The thud of an object hitting its target]

DUSTIN HENDERSON: Ow!

[Outro music begins]

MAYFIELD, NARRATING: Except the money is never found. Except the precise cause of Steven Harrington’s death is shrouded in mystery. Except, for such a high-profile victim, the story is buried in the back pages of the local newspapers.

It’s almost as if someone were trying to hide something. And nobody seems to have found that odd.

Until now.

[Music swells]

MAYFIELD, NARRATING: From Glad-Well House and Mayclair Productions, this is Undone, season two, An Act of Grace. I’m Max Mayfield. Let’s get into it.

[Music swells; fades]

#steddiebang23 #steddiebang23 upcoming projects

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howifeltabouthim · 4 months

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She wasn't in love with him, she knew; but she also knew that love for him, the warmth that steals through a centrally-heated house on a cold day, might come.

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room