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the sun will marry the moon

(another one of those online scrapbooks. that's about it, really.)
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rowanboat: (via midnight-radio) Oh my. These screencaps made me curious about the movie so I went and IMDB’d it and then read some book reviews. Now I desperately want to see the film and read the novel. It sounds positively beautiful. DO IT DO IT DO IT. I strongly recommend you read the book first, because due to the unfortunately necessary leaving-out of Forster’s lovely narration, there’s a few scenes in the film that come across a bit differently than they perhaps should. That’s not to say that the film isn’t amazing, because it totally is, and I’ll stop here before this turns all ridiculous.

rowanboat:

(via midnight-radio)

Oh my. These screencaps made me curious about the movie so I went and IMDB’d it and then read some book reviews. Now I desperately want to see the film and read the novel. It sounds positively beautiful.

DO IT DO IT DO IT. I strongly recommend you read the book first, because due to the unfortunately necessary leaving-out of Forster’s lovely narration, there’s a few scenes in the film that come across a bit differently than they perhaps should. That’s not to say that the film isn’t amazing, because it totally is, and I’ll stop here before this turns all ridiculous.



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Maurice (film): scene two

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  • Maurice: I think that if a man has ideas like that, he should have the courtesy to keep them to himself.
  • Risley: No, no, no. On the contrary, one must talk, talk, talk. It's only by talking that we shall caper upon the summit. Otherwise the mountains will overshadow us.


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“When intimacy is established and the loved one has grown used to being near his friend and touching him in the gymnasium and elsewhere, the current of the stream which Zeus in love with Ganymede called “the stream of longing” sets in full flood toward the lover. Part of it enters into him, but when his heart is full the rest brims over, and as a wind or an echo rebounds from a smooth and solid surface and is carried back to its point of origin, so the stream of beauty returns once more to its source in the beauty of the beloved.”

— Plato, Phaedrus.



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I would direct this to my diary because it’s stupid but whatever, at least it’ll explain the screencap spam that is sure to follow:

Maurice, in both book and film form, means an awesome amount to me, and I mean awesome in the original sense of the word. It makes me feel nostalgic for things that I’ve never had, incredibly lonely for a number of reasons (trangst being one of them, somehow), the sort of sadness that’s difficult to articulate—and yet at the same time, the words, the story, the emotions, the thoughts are so beautiful, and I can identify with so much (too much?) of it, that in the end the experience is an uplifting one. Not quite the Romantic sublime, but I’d like to think that it’s close.

And every time I watch the film or read the novel, I find something that seems new in some little way, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

My sister talks about “heart movies”, a movie that defines you somehow—this is mine.



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via www.dabbledoo.com Sooooo, the movie was more violent than I remembered. Khabensky was still great, of course, but jeez. Pretty sure it didn’t have to be so XXXTREME with BLOOD and SPURTING and whatever. I mean, I know it’s only loosely based on the books—which are enjoyable and quite Russian—but still. I’ll see what my friend thinks before gifting it to her.

via www.dabbledoo.com

Sooooo, the movie was more violent than I remembered. Khabensky was still great, of course, but jeez. Pretty sure it didn’t have to be so XXXTREME with BLOOD and SPURTING and whatever. I mean, I know it’s only loosely based on the books—which are enjoyable and quite Russian—but still. I’ll see what my friend thinks before gifting it to her.



Link

Trench Literature – Reading in World War I - AbeBooks

The literature generated by World War I - from A Farewell to Arms to the poetry of Sassoon, Graves, Brooke, and Owen - serves as a lasting reminder of this nightmarish conflict. But what did the ordinary soldiers read in the trenches? The answer is almost anything from the most famous writers to authors who are little known today. Reading material was in such demand that soldiers on all sides resorted to publishing their own trench journals.



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Hey, have you ever seen…Night Watch? » Dumb Drum Currently rewatching this to see if I am right about its potential as a gift for my smart vampire-liking friend. All I really remember about it beyond the cool subtitles is Konstantin Khabensky because SO ADORBS.

Hey, have you ever seen…Night Watch? » Dumb Drum

Currently rewatching this to see if I am right about its potential as a gift for my smart vampire-liking friend. All I really remember about it beyond the cool subtitles is Konstantin Khabensky because SO ADORBS.