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thoughtkick · 10 months

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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surqrised · 7 months

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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perfectquote · 1 year

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Sebastian Faulks

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quotemadness · 1 year

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Sebastian Faulks

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oldshrewsburyian · 8 months

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what classic romances do you think measure up to harriet and peter in gaudy night? i’m really craving more satisfying classic romance

Well, kind inquirer, I have a confession. I had read the Wimsey novels multiple times by the age of 16. Over the past 2+ decades, Peter and Harriet have taught me a lot of things, even if I have learned them more slowly and painfully than I would like (Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face...); even if I feel as though I have not salvaged as much as I could from life's various shipwrecks. The point is: no one measures up, not for me. My dear, if you have let me come as far as your work and your life... That said, I can offer some suggestions, presuming that you mean by "classic romance" romance that happens outside the genre parameters of romance novels. I'll start with the most classic and work my way forwards. [Under the cut for length!]

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (for obvious reasons, I imagine. Perhaps the thing I love most in romance is two intense weirdos deciding to love each other intensely and weirdly.)

Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare (I know I said I'd work my way forward, but then I said 'intense weirdos' and remembered my beloved Benedick and Beatrice. Beatrice, an unmarried woman in her uncle's household, interrupts men's political conversation to demand to know whether he's alive because she can't stand not knowing for a minute longer... and that's her opening line! and then they roast each other for 2 hours! I love them so much!)

Persuasion, Jane Austen (Anne is, I would argue, quietly intense, while Frederick is obviously so; he's also weird enough for both of them (affectionate.) I adore them, I support them, I wish them many decades of shocking society with how they look at each other across rooms. And dinner tables. And pianos. And dancing squares.)

Artists in Crime/Death in a White Tie, Ngaio Marsh (this is the Alleyn/Troy duology the way that Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night is the Peter/Harriet trilogy. I adore Troy, an anxious and compassionate artist with gnc tendencies, and Alleyn fascinates me. Intense weirdos again. Alleyn successfully pretends to be normal most of the time, with everyone except about 3 people. Occasionally he decides to stop, or just does because he's very tired and fed up, and then everyone in the room gets very freaked out very quickly. I love him.)

The Case of William Smith, Patricia Wentworth (bonus detective round! Wentworth is not in the Sayers-Marsh class, and this novel has some tropes I don't like, but I love the gentleness of the central romance so much that I still reread it.)

Possession, A.S. Byatt (Victorian poets, the scholars who study them, the life of the mind and the life of the heart. This is absolutely a novel with Gaudy Night in its lineage.)

The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles (I hesitated before adding this to the list, but it's a novel of ideas that is also about love and sex and identity and Englishness with a very vivid setting, so it might fit the bill?)

The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje ('I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant, who imagines or remembers a meeting when the other had passed by innocently...')

Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong is the greater novel, but this one might be the one I prefer. I love Charlotte and her quest to find herself that is also a journey toward love! and vocation! and the images for the lovers in this book are indelible)

Bonus round of books I looked at on my shelf and decided were about so many things that the romance might not be central enough: The Children's Book, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Remains of the Day, The Portrait of a Lady, War and Peace, Brideshead Revisited.

Bonus bonus round, not a book: Random Harvest. Yes it is a book, but in the novel, the romance which truly is emotionally anchoring (I would argue) is much more peripheral than it is in the film, which was, like the Wimsey novels, formative for me. Also, look at them:

I have not been normal about the way he looks at her for *checks notes* 25 years. And I hope you find some things to enjoy here!

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resqectable · 2 years

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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eddie-redmayne-italian-blog · 3 months

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My Gifs from Birdsong Trailer!!

Broadcast on BBC ONE on January 22nd - 29th 2012, the series received 6 nominations for the Bafta awards, winning best costume design (Charlotte Walter) and 3 nominations at the Banff Rockie Award, 1 of which was won by Abi Morgan (Writer)

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asgoodeasgold · 8 months

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Captain Gray in vintage.

Matthew Goode is so timeless, he can embody any period.

📷 BBC Birdsong (2012) my edit

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nightlyquotes · 10 months

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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perfectfeelings · 2 years

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Sebastian Faulks

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quotefeeling · 2 years

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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thoughtkick · 2 years

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

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ecoamerica · 15 days

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snowyhobbit · 14 days

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Lonely's like any other organism: competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

- Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

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litandlifequotes · 4 months

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Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

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quotemadness · 1 year

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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Sebastian Faulks

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oldshrewsburyian · 2 years

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Please do you have any recs for books set in Oxford beyond the classics (e.g. Brideshead Revisited, Gaudy Night, Morse)?

Oh I do! The difficulty is that there are so many 'classics.' Among these I would count, for instance, Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, but I am mentioning it here anyway because it is utterly delightful. Its subtitle, “An Oxford Love Story,” indicates that it is a story about a romance with Oxford, as well as a love story set within it.

Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain, describes the memoirist's time at Oxford in the early C20, including her encounters with Sayers and her experiences of reading Rupert Brooke's sonnets.

Landscape With Dead Dons, Robert Robinson, is an absurdist mystery with a geographically-specific chase scene so funny that I had to put down the book and make undignified noises about it.

The Gervase Fen series, Edmund Crispin, also delights in a comedic (and deeply affectionate) skewering of specifically Oxonian eccentricities. I think my favorite of his is Swan Song, which features pedantry about Wagner, though the one that most often makes it onto "best of" whodunit lists is The Moving Toyshop.

The Oxford Murders, Guillermo Martínez. I feel that I should have enjoyed this book more than I did, but it is skillfully crafted (and Martínez himself did a postdoc at Oxford.)

Engleby, Sebastian Faulks, is set at a deliberately unspecified university... either Oxford or the other place. The fact that the protagonist studies natural sciences might imply Cambridge. I confess I don’t remember enough details of the setting to state my own view.

Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy. I recommend this with the caveat that it wrecked me, but it’s supposed to. It has searing and indelible prose, and it writes about the life of the mind with exquisite yearning. Like Gaudy Night, too, it asks the central question of what happens when the life of the mind encounters the life of the heart, and what can happen if those in "a castle manned by scholarship and religion” pretend they can ignore the messiness of human realities.

To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis. This book is an absolute delight, and it defies description. There is punting. There are Wimsey references. There are Victorian monstrosities. There is time travel.

#book recommendations #oxford #adultbooklr #my detection obsession #zuleika dobson #jude the obscure #to say nothing of the dog #edmund crispin #landscape with dead dons #testament of youth #sebastian faulks #guillermo martinez

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