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Halle Bailey as Sky Forster in Season 1 of grown●ish
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sonderpoison · 1 year
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the accuracy!!
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geekverse08 · 11 months
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Halle Bailey for British Vogue 2023!🧜🏾‍♀️
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kendalsroy · 1 year
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SKY FORSTER Mind Playing Tricks on Me
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familyabolisher · 1 year
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2022 reading list >:)
fiction:
charlotte brontë, jane eyre
n.k. jemisin, the stone sky
victor hugo, les misérables
susanna clarke, piranesi
james baldwin, giovanni's room
tamsyn muir, gideon the ninth
tamsyn muir, harrow the ninth
emily brontë, wuthering heights
ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness
oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray
isaac fellman, dead collections
joan lindsay, picnic at hanging rock
shirley jackson, dark tales
gretchen felker-martin, manhunt
herman melville, moby dick
octavia butler, parable of the sower
shola von reinhold, lote
larissa lai, the tiger flu
alison rumfitt, tell me i'm worthless
julia armfield, our wives under the sea
shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house
miguel de cervantes, don quixote
toni morrison, the bluest eye
isaac babel, odessa stories
alexandre dumas, the count of monte cristo
daphne du maurier, rebecca
clark ashton smith, the dark eidolon and other fantasies
rivers solomon, the deep
akwaeke emezi, freshwater
e.m. forster, a room with a view
vladimir nabokov, lolita
ayse papatya bucak, the trojan war museum and other stories
sheridan le fanu, carmilla
e.m. forster, maurice
tamsyn muir, nona the ninth
vladimir nabokov, pale fire
shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle
jorge luis borges, fictions
henry james, the turn of the screw
tamsyn muir, undercover
ling ma, severance
orhan pamuk, the museum of innocence
shirley jackson, hangsaman
nonfiction:
vijay prashad, no free left: the futures of indian communism
eduardo galeano, open veins of latin america
hakim adi, pan-africanism: a history
paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed
a rainbow thread: an anthology of queer jewish texts ed. noam sienna
kwame nkrumah, africa must unite
vijay prashad, red star over the third world
norm finkelstein, the holocaust industry
robin wall kimmerer, braiding sweetgrass
vladimir lenin, the state and revolution
saidiya hartman, wayward lives, beautiful experiments
john aberth, from the brink of the apocalypse
erik butler, metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film
amin maalouf, the crusades through arab eyes
anandi ramamurthy, black star: britain's asian youth movements
christopher chitty, sexual hegemony
shakespearean gothic, ed. christy desmet and anne williams
cervantes' don quixote: a casebook, ed. roberto gonzález echevarria
edward said, culture and imperialism
emily hobson, lavender and red: liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left
audre lorde, zami: a new spelling of my name
ghassan kanafani, on zionist literature
afsaneh najmabadi, women with moustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity
jamie berrout, essays against publishing
beverley bryan, stella dadzie, suzanne scafe, heart of the race: black women's lives in britain
jamaica kincaid, a small place
friedrich engels, socialism: utopian and scientific
poetry:
trish salah, lyric sexology
melissa range, scriptorium
wendy trevino, cruel fiction
june jordan, selected poems
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A TALAY WEB WEAVE/CHARACTER ANALYSIS — vice versa (2022) ⪢ requested by @talays-portkey
abigail dewitt, when writing fiction hurts the people you love || t.s. eliot, the confidential clerk || vincent van gogh, letter from vincent van gogh to anthon van rappard June 1882 || margaret atwood, the woman who could not live with her faulty heart || franz kafka, letters to milena || curlzformetal, my collection the language of strangers || marya hornbacher, wasted || e.m. forster, maurice || anaïs nin, the diary of anaïs nin, vol. 1 || michael gray, i think love is something that happens to other people || zen cho, the four generations of chang e || kazuo ishiguro, when we were orphans || terry pratchett, a hat full of sky || tennessee williams, the night of the iguana || warsan shire, when i love
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Alas, very soon everything will disappear:
the birdcalls, the delicate blooms. In the end,
even the earth itself will follow the artist’s name into oblivion.
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“All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world.”
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After the fairy tale, the world is hazy, blue.
The roles and faces here are unrehearsed.
The soldier sings the partisan’s laments.
The young girl plays her songs of mourning…
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as the world caves in
memorial to a marriage / louise glück / mary ruefle / sylvia plath / life to the last drop, mahmoud darwish / leaving the movie theatre, wisława szymborska / gwendolyn macewen / from an old post by @librarycard / two umbrellas, heather ihn martin / howards end by e.m. forster / the conditional, ada limón / @soracities / certain days, certain hours by erik mattijssen / the hot chair by william ireland / come. and be my baby, maya angelou
[Image ID:
(1) a marble statue of two lovers lying down, embracing.
(2) text saying “I remember thinking the world ended a long time ago but no one noticed. I remember every dinner”. the first line is highlighted in green.
(3) If someone said to me again: 'Supposing you were to die tomorrow, what would you do?' I wouldn't need any time to reply. If I felt drowsy, I would sleep. If I was thirsty, I would drink. If I was writing, I might like what I was writing and ignore the question. If I was having lunch, I would add a little mustard and pepper to the slice of grilled meat. If I was shaving, I might cut my earlobe. If I was kissing my girlfriend, I would devour her lips as if they were figs. If I was reading, I would skip a few pages. If I was peeling an onion, I would shed a few tears. If I was walking, I would continue walking at a slower pace. If I existed, as I do now, then I wouldn't think about not existing. If I didn't exist, then the question wouldn't bother me. If I was listening to Mozart, I would already be close to the realms of the angels. If I was asleep, I would carry on sleeping and dream blissfully of gardenias. If I was laughing, I would cut my laughter by half out of respect for the information. What else could I do, even if I was braver than an idiot and stronger than Hercules?
(4) CROZIER:
(Speaking slowly, painfully)
We scattered our instruments behind us, and left them where they fell Like pieces of our bodies, like limbs We no longer had need for; we walked on and dropped them, compasses, tins, tools, all of them. Now we come to the end of science...
(5) a living room with a green couch and lots of ornaments.
(6) a painting of a white kitchen door with an umbrella and a pair of boots leaning against it.
(7) text saying “We know that there's poetry. We know that there's death.” the word know is italicized in both sentences.
(8) Say tomorrow doesn't come.
Say the moon becomes an icy pit.
Say the kitchen's a cow's corpse.
Say we never get to see it: bright future, stuck like a bum star, never coming close, never dazzling.
Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified. Say the sun's a foul black tire fire.
Say the owl's eyes are pinpricks.
Say the raccoon's a hot tar stain.
Say the shirt's plastic ditch-litter.
Say we never meet her. Never him. Say we spend our last moments staring at each other, hands knotted together, clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn't matter.
Say, That would be enough.
Say you'd still want this: us alive, right here, feeling lucky.
(9) a tumblr post by @/soracities, saying “maybe a lot of life really is just figuring out who you'd sit and do the dishes with even while the world ends”.
(10) a realistic painting of a bedroom. there is a desk, a bed and an open window. several baskets hang above the bed.
(11) an impressionist painting of a living room with an open door and beams of sunlight coming in. a few armchairs are seen.
(12) Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow
But others say we've got a week or two
The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror
And you sit wondering
What you're gonna do.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.
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defensivewall · 5 months
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JOBE BELLINGHAM - Sunderland v Birmingham City - Sky Bet Championship - November 11, 2023
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videbi · 3 years
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The Best Books
The list is made from an academic point of view. More books may be added or any book may be taken out of the list at anytime.
Books that enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted us
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813
Emma by Jane Austen, 1815
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot, 1874
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884
Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885
The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, 1888
The Ambassadors by Henry James, 1903
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, 1913
Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 1916
Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, 1928
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, 1929
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 1929
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, 1933
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, 1937
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, 1937
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
Romola by George Eliot, 1940
Black Boy by Richard Wright, 1945
Hiroshima by John Hersey, 1946
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1946
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1947
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, 1951
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1954
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, 1955
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 1958
The Civil War by Shelby Foote, 1958
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger, 1959
Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 1960
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster, 1960
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, 1961
The Making of the President by Theodore H. White, 1961
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre, 1963
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 1964
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, 1965
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, 1965
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag, 1966
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 1966
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris, 1968
The Double Helix by James Watson, 1968
The Electric Kool_Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, 1968
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, 1969
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume, 1970
Ball Four by Jim Boutton, 1970
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, 1971
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam, 1972
The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp, 1973
All The President’s Men by Bob Woodwad and Carl Bernstein, 1974
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, 1974
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, 1975
Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson, 1975
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, 1979
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, 1980
Follow The River by James Alexander Thom, 1981
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm, 1981
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1982
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester, 1983
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984
The Center of the Cyclone by John Lilly, 1985
Great and Desperate Cures by Elliott Valenstein, 1986
Maus by Art Spiegelman, 1986
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 1986
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, 1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, 1987
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, 1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPerson, 1988
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky, 1988
Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer, 1989
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin, 1991
Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, 1991
PIHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin, 1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye, 1991
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, 1991
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1992
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, 1992
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1993
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts, 1996
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom, 1997
War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley, 1997
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, 1997
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, 1998
In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel Kevles, 1998
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, 1998
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, 2000
Nonzero by Robert Wright, 2000
Chocolat by Joanne Harris, 2000
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, 2001
The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wegner, 2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2003
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones, 2003
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2004
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, 2004
Portofino: A Novel (Calvin Becker Trilogy) by Frank Schaeffer, 2004
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, 2005
The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 2008
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World, 2009
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 2010
Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco, 2011
Books that inspired debate, activism, dissent, war and revolution
The Torah
Bhagavad Gita
I Ching (Classic of Changes) by Fu Xi
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1266
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1321
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza, 1677
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, 1678
Candide by Voltaire, 1759
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1781
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
Walden (Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1857
Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel, 1866
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1869
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883
Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, 1898
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, 1914
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, 1916
Psychological Types by Carl Jung, 1921
Mein Kampf (My Struggle or My Battle) by Adolf Hitler, 1925
Der Process (The Trial) by Franz Kafka, 1925
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Karma-glin-pa (Karma Lingpa), 1927
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes, 1936
The Big Book by Alcoholics Anonymous, 1939
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek, 1944
Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945
Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi, 1947
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1947
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, 1951
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960
Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevarra, 1961
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, 1962
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, 1962
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book) by Mao Zedong, 1964
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader, 1965
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, 1969
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, 1970
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, 1987
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 1988
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 1995
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, 1997
Books that shook civilization, changed the world
The Holy Bible
The Qur’an
The Analects of Confucius
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Histories by Herodotus, 440 BC
The Republic by Plato, 380 BC
The Kama Sutra (Aphorisms on Love) by Vatsyayana
On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (The Younger), 62
Geographia by Ptolemy, 150
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 160
Confessions by St. Augustine, 397
The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna, 1025
Magna Carta, 1215
The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis, 1400’s
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne, 1571
The King James Bible by William Tyndale et al, 1611
The First Folio by William Shakespeare, 1623
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 1687
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift, 1704
Encyclopaedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, 1751
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1755
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine by Richard Arkwright, 1769
Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce, 1789
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, 1791
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt, 1826
Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday, 1839, 1844, 1855
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855
On Liberty by John Stewart Mill, 1859
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859
The Rules of Association Football by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, 1863
Das Kapital (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) by Karl Marx, 1867
On Art and Life by John Ruskin, 1886
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1898
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, 1899
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906
Why Am I So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908
Married Love by Marie Stopes, 1918
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, 1928
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 1930
Why I Write by George Orwell, 1946
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Hi there! Hope you’re doing well <3
43, 66, 104 and 124 for you ask game ^^
Hello gorgeous! Thank you! How are you doing?
43. a book that you have read more than three times
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
66. - answered
104. a fluffy, sweet read
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
124. the book you're currently reading
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
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I would, in fact, be delighted if you would be pleased to expound on changes made in the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of A Room With A View. I vaguely remember dissatisfaction with the treatment of Cyril, but I return to the book much more frequently, and have a poor memory of what is and is not altered in the film.
@amethystineprose also made a request, so here is my quarter-century old rant about the nits I pick with the film.
1. The barley field instead of the field of cornflowers.
This I can find it in myself to forgive; if there is not a field of cornflowers to be had and the budget does not support creating one, one does what one must. (Even more sympathy after hearing James Ivory talk about how it rained for most of the production of Maurice and they managed to film the cricket scene on one of the few mostly-clear days.) But it means we don't get this:
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.
"Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called, “Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!” The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett who stood brown against the view.
"He saw the barley beat against her dress in green-golden waves" is I suppose adequate. But we don't get enough of Lucy's radiant joy, and we lose the blue of the flowers mirroring the blue of the sky to create a perfect colorful silent self-enclosed moment plucked from quotidian reality. And then Miss Bartlett should appear breaking the moment and against the view to remind them of the brown and the conventional and the accepted back to which she will pull Lucy with virtuous vexation. The intercutting of Charlotte's approach with the kiss highlights the brevity of the moment, but also undermines its intensity and unity, and lessens Charlotte's impact as an invading force intruding suddenly upon the scene.
An offense against Forster's color and nature symbolism, with mitigating factors of filmmaking on location is hard and sometimes nature just won't cooperate. But Maggie Smith is a world champion at passive aggression and the soundtrack for this scene is glorious.
(Also just dropping this here: the symbolism of the Blaue Blume.)
2. Lucy plays piano, specifically two pieces by Robert Schumann, at a party at Mrs. Vyse's house in London, as part of her assumed assimilation into the Vyse set.
“Now some Beethoven,” called Cecil, when the querulous beauty of the music had died. She shook her head and played Schumann again. The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete—the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art—throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb. Not thus had she played on the little draped piano at the Bertolini, and “Too much Schumann” was not the remark that Mr. Beebe had passed to himself when she returned.
[...]
“But her music!” he exclaimed. “The style of her! How she kept to Schumann when, like an idiot, I wanted Beethoven. Schumann was right for this evening. Schumann was the thing."
Schumann was the thing. Forster is emphatic on this point, as he was on the significance of Beethoven to Lucy's characterization earlier. So why on earth in the film does she play Schubert? My kindest explanation is that there was a typo or a misunderstanding somewhere, because it's such an arbitrary and nonsensical change.
An offense against Forster's music symbolism, with exaggerating factors of you could have had her just play some Schumann I mean come on.
3. OK, this is the one that irks me the most: the flattening of Mr. Emerson's character.
(This is not to cast any aspersions whatsoever on the magnificent Denholm Elliott and his performance, which is a treasure and a delight and in many ways is the heart of this film. No one else could bumble so exquisitely.)
Yes, sure, cut his backstory, it's tangential enough that it makes sense to lose it in a feature-length adaptation.
But it makes it all the more important that his dialogue evoke that unspoken backstory and the role it has played in George's development and in how he and George relate to Lucy. And a key moment of film dialogue is SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT from what he says in the book.
“I only know what it is that’s wrong with him; not why it is.”
“And what is it?” asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale.
“The old trouble; things won’t fit.”
“What things?”
“The things of the universe. It is quite true. They don’t.”
“Oh, Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?”
In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "‘From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I.’
"George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don’t believe in this world sorrow.”
Miss Honeychurch assented.
“Then make my boy think like us. Make him realize that by the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
The film turns the rueful moderation of the last line into "By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes, and a Yes, and a Yes!" -- quite a different emotion! The novel's version maintains a delicate balance, as Forster's works so often take care to do: yes, the world doesn't fit, but we can still rejoice; the branch beneath us may fail, but we can still call out for beauty, joy, and love; we may be caught in a muddle, but we can still strive to know ourselves and others truly.
An offense against theme and Forster's whole artistic philosophy, and the misstep I most regret in this otherwise glorious adaptation.
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2022 in books
january:
the architecture of happiness by alain de bottom
an american marriage by tayari jones
filter house by nisi shawl
february:
the metamorphosis by franz kafka
the worst best man by mia sosa
the hating game by sally throne
utopia avenue by david mitchell
march:
people we meet on vacation by emily henry
it happened one summer by tessa bailey
hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey
the unhoneymooners by christina lauren
the spanish love deception by elena armas
minor detail by adania shibli
get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert
take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert
act your age, eve brown by talia hibbert
born to run by bruce springsteen
homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh
the kiss quotient by helen hoang
the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood
boy parts by eliza clark
fix her up by tessa bailey
before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi
april:
tools of engagement by tessa bailey
nausea by jean-paul sartre
the fine print by lauren asher
the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky
happy hour by marlowe granados
love and other words by christine lauren
may:
fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson
lolita by vladimir nabokov
june:
atonement by ian mcewan
an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson
six of crows by leigh bardugo
house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas
house of sky and breath by sarah j. maas
breakfast at tiffany’s & other voices, other rooms: two novels by truman capote
bunny by mona awad
when he was wicked by julia quinn
rebecca by daphne du maurier
fight club by chuck palahtniuk
july:
yolk by mary h.k. choi
milk fed by melissa broder
junky by william s. burroughs
in the dream house by carmen maria machado
august:
breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut jr
animal by lisa taddeo
one last stop by casey mcquiston
the antichrist by friedrich nietzsche
shop girl by steve martin
a room with a view by e.m. forster
a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas
a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas
a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. maas
september:
orlando by virginia woolf
coraline by neil gaiman
book lovers by emily henry
october:
almond by sohn won-pyung
l.a. woman by eve babitz
catch-22 by joseph heller
exciting times by naoise dolan
november:
tender is the flesh by augstina bazterrica
a grief observed by c.s. lewis
little birds by anaïs nin
cultish: the language of fanaticism by amanda montell
december:
role models by john waters
the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
the awakening by kate chopin
reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies by bell hooks
tales from the cafe by toshikazu kawaguchi
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levisfavoriteacup · 1 year
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Modern AU! Attack on Titan where it was real all along and it's 2022 you fell in love with a hero from a different era who saved the world.
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You first learned about the history of Titans at school, in middle school to be precise. Safe to say that it immediately sparked your interest. A never-ending war between Humanity and Titans? Eldians and Marleyans? You wanted to learn more about this fascinating yet terrifying era of history. So you've read books, watched documentaries, and you've never gotten bored of it! Even now as an adult, you still have a passion for history. Well, history and.. Him. One of the greatest hero of all time (the best to you) Levi Ackerman. You ended up falling for him throughout the years, as you became older and more mature.
Levi Ackerman, considered “Humanity's strongest soldier” for Eldians. You're pretty sure you know everything about him now. Where he came from, his years in the Survey Corps, the loved ones he's lost, what he liked, how he acted, how people viewed him.. Up until his last battle. Afterwards, you don't know where he ended up (nobody knows), and how was his life after his last battle. You only hope he had the life he deserved.
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One sunny afternoon, your friends and yourself decide to hang out outside for the entire day. they end up surprising you by bringing you to a museum about the history of the Titans. After about an hour and a half visiting the museum with your friends, they get distracted and talk a few meters ahead of you, leaving you unintentionally behind. You pay little to no mind to that as you know how hard it already must be for them to spend their entire afternoon in a museum, considering they're all doing it for you. You decide to take your time, and you end up seeing dark, grey clouds covering the entire sky through the windows. You look out for a brief instant. You can hear rain, and its soothing sound hitting on the roof. It's quite pleasing, visiting an empty museum like that. Besides your friends and yourself, it seems like there's barely a living soul.
The room you've just entered is empty. It strikes you by how big, cold and utterly silent it is. It's filled with statues of all important figures relating to Titans' history. You slowly walk through the room, coming accross the faces of the heroes and the devils of history.
«Floch Forster»
«Armin Arlert»
«Mikasa Ackerman»
«Eren Jaeger»
«Erwin Smith»
«Hanji Zoe»
«Levi Ackerman»
You freeze and stare at his ethereal face, his expression hard and his marble eyes piercing yours. Ignoring the sign not to touch it, you walk up to him, caressing his cheeks made of stone. It's smooth and cold to the touch, and you can't help but smile fondly at his pretty face. Your smile suddenly drops.
That's not him.
It's just marble.
It's hard,
Cold
It doesn't breathe
It doesn't think
It
doesn't
see
me
Thunder falls out of the sky in a deafening flash, illuminating the statue and your trembling hand. You don't even notice until they roll down your trembling lip that fat tears of despair are escaping your eyes. You're so, deeply, genuinely in love with this man, this man who saved the world, gave his entire being for it and never asked for anything in return. This man who lost everything and stayed strong because he had to. This man who never experienced love, never experienced your love. Your love that would've fixed his broken, delicate heart. Your love that could've brought a genuine, rare smile upon his face. The love that you've never had the chance to give him. You will never hear his voice, see his living form, touch his warm body. You know everything about him, yet he died never knowing you.
You never had a single chance, because it's simply impossible. It's 2022 and he's dead, and you've never met, and you never will. It was never meant to be.
The heart-wrenching realization starts to physically hurt you, as you desperately grasp your chest, trying to get a hold of your broken heart, to just make it stop hurting. Your knees hit the ground in a hard thud, right in front of his statue, as violent sobs resonate through the big empty room. The roaring thunder covers your cries of despair, it being the only occasional source of light in the room.
Why?
Love is a cruel joke.
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I'm very sorry if it's badly written I didn't even mean to write a whole goddamn fanfiction I just wanted to write a lil scenario
And sorry I couldn't put the divider and the words further apart, Tumblr stop fucking bugging, seriously this is not aesthetic pleasing at all
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enibas22 · 2 years
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from FB Bavaria Fiction - 10th May 2022
Nur noch 4 Tage bis zum Start der 3. Staffel #DasBoot! 🤩 Immer samstags auf Sky One & jederzeit mit Sky Ticket! ⚓
Die neue Staffel folgt dem Schicksal einer unerfahrenen U-Boot-Crew unter Robert Ehrenberg, die auf eine gefährliche Mission geschickt wird und dabei ins Visier eines besessenen Royal Navy Commanders gerät! Währenddessen deckt Hagen Forster im neutralen Lissabon ein tödliches Komplott um den Diebstahl von geplündertem Kriegsgold auf!
Fotos: Stephan Rabold, Sky Deutschland
Thank you Nelya - Tumblr nelyft - for the edited picture! 🌻 🚤 ⚓
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cbjustmusic · 1 year
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The Band of Heathens and Jaime Wyatt team up with eTown hosts Nick & Helen Forster for this rendition of Neil Young's "Helpless." ____________________ Helpless Songwriter: Neil Young
There is a town in north Ontario With dream comfort memory to spare In my mind, I still need a place to go All my changes were there
Blue, blue windows behind the stars Yellow moon on the rise Big birds flying across the sky Throwing shadows on our eyes Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless Baby can you hear me now? (Helpless, helpless, helpless) The chains are locked and tied across the door Baby, sing with me somehow (helpless, helpless, helpless)
Blue, blue windows behind the stars Yellow moon on the rise Big birds flying across the sky Throwing shadows on our eyes Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless (Helpless, helpless, helpless)
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