when that terror camp presentation calling hickey “the mouth of the empire” hits......
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Several scenes centering on “Cornelius Hickey” from The Terror, overlaid with a quote from Bedelia’s speech in the Hannibal episode “...And The Woman Clothed In Sun”.
1. Hickey’s silhouette against the wall of fire when he tries to re-enter Carnivale in 1.06 // “Dante was the first to conceive of Hell”
2. The crew looking on at the damage done to Hickey as he’s untied just following the flogging scene in 1.04 // “as a planned space,”
3. The court martial in 1.08. The men encircle the gallows in the fog, while Crozier gestures at where Hickey stands with the noose around his neck // “an urban environment.”
4. A tilted but symmetrical shot of the “dead room” in the ship’s hold, where they stow a body in 1.05. Through the open doorway is the outline of Hickey as he struggles out past the corpses // “Before Dante, we spoke not of the Gates of Hell”
5. Hickey swallowing the drink Crozier offers him in 1.02 // “but of”
6. Hickey watching Gibson speak with Irving in 1.03. He is on a ladder stepping down into a lower deck, so the bottom half of his face is obscured // “the Mouth”
7. Hickey chewing thoughtfully as he eats Gibson in the mutineers’ camp from 1.09 // “of Hell.”
8. The bloody hand holding his tongue that Hickey offers the Tuunbaq in 1.10 // “My journey to damnation began”
9. Daylight from above-deck outlining a crew member as they descend into Terror during the flashback at the beginning of 1.07 // “when I was swallowed by the beast.”
and I wish great welcome to the snow, whatever its severe and comfortless and beautiful meaning
god is made of hunger and i am made of dreams by katie maria • icebergs in the arctic by william bradford • penguins in the arctic landscape at dusk by herman herzog • revelation 14:15 ( X ) we are gone (the terror, 2018) ( X ) living by jenny holzer