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When your crush trusts your friends more than you :
Original translation : “Grantaire, sad, was drinking: “Enjolras disdains me, he mumbled. Enjolras said : Joly is sick, Grantaire’s drunk. It’s to Bossuet he sent Navet. If he had come to fetch me, I would have followed him. Enjolras’s loss ! I won’t go to his funeral.”
This is very different from what I usually write, but change can be good. I've been reading the great French modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire and was inspired (since I'm not nearly proficient enough in French to write an entire poem in that language) to try my hand at a macaronic -- a type of poem that mixes words from different languages. I hope you enjoy it.
TEXT:
LE VENT ET LE SOLEIL You'll ever be mon amour mon amour What you were on the beach ce jour When you tossed all your clothes away To greet le vent et le soleil
To see ton corps si beau et nu Made me drunk with love of you We two made love without a care And no one watching sauf la mer
Nous nous voyons, my love, no more You stand upon another shore Yet of this truth you may be sure I keep you safe parmi mon coeur
'You falsely claim to be Achilles' son: he never treated me, his enemy, with such disdain. When I appealed to him, he recognized my rights and kept his word, giving me Hector's corpse for burial and sending me unharmed back to my throne.' The old man weakly cast his feeble spear. It clanged against the bronze, a useless throw, and dangled from the surface of the boss. Pyrrhus said, 'Soon you will bring word of this down to the son of Peleus, my father. Remember to describe the shocking deeds committed by his Neoptolemus, the stain on his ancestral line. Now die.'
Neoptolemus may be awful, but you can't say Virgil doesn't give him great lines.
You know-
Imma do something about this
Die here and now! I for myself accept doom whenever Zeus and all the other immortals wish to make it happen
(Translation by me)
Like father like son
light as a feather
'I've never seen it snow this late in the year.' Francis was looking out the window. 'Yesterday it was nearly seventy degrees.' 'Were they predicting it?' Charles said. 'Not what I heard.' 'Christ, look at this. It's almost Easter.' 'I don't see why you're so excited,' Henry said crossly. He had a pragmatic, farmer-like knowledge of how weather conditions affected growth, germinations, blooming times, et cetera. 'It's just going to kill all the flowers.'
As someone who's degree involved cultivation I can absolutely appriciate Henry's love for gardening and this honestly started off as a 'this interaction made me laugh' post, but I also find it so interesting.
This man is so calculated and can be very apathic and harsh and obsessed with control, but he is seemingly a lot softer and delicate around his flowers.
It is such an interesting little detail about him. He especially starts to, almost obsess, over it after the bacchanal and then, from what I remember, again/even more so after the whole Camilla and Charles thing.
Because do not get me wrong, effective gardening/cultivation does ask a lot of precise planning and making use of controlling factors from a person. However, it also asks for a lot of delecacy and care, a side of Henry we see a lot less. So that makes me wonder why Donna Tartt made Henry love gardening this much of all things.
Was it to show that he has a softer side after all? I honestly almost think that that is too simple for a character as complex as Henry. Perhaps this is me overthinking things, as I am very good at doing so, but every little characteristic from the Greek class is so thoughtfully chosen, I doubt it is just that.
Perhaps it is just too show that this man is obessive and needs control over everything as, from what I remember, he does talk about his plants in a way that very much feels like a need for perfection. But why there? Why with plants?
I think that maybe it was a way to keep himself from falling apart. Again, his obession with gardening becomes mostly apparent after the bacchanal. After the, accidental, murder of the farmer. And then again with Camilla. But also after the murder of Bunny. Obviously the snow was not planned. It was not planned that Bunny would not be found until that much later. This put dents in Henry's plan. Not to mention the whole group was slowly losing it around him. Henry being Henry cannot afford himself to fall apart. So he puts this into his gardening. That he can control more. He can choose the flowers, he is in control of the amount of water they get, et cetera. I think maybe he needed that control to keep himself calm. Surely if he can control the lives of some flowers, he can keep control of the situation at large. Besides, he is here, nurturing a life after taking two away. Maybe that makes him feel better too.
It is, again, very possible that I am just reading into this too much, but I like to think he needed the control to cope. Because everyone needs someething to help him deal with things. Even someone like Henry Marchbanks Winter.
This one sentence led me to make quite a realisation which turned into quite a long rant so here’s my analysis/theory/thoughts :)
Richard and Bunny are foil characters, Henry saves Richard’s life and takes Bunny’s. Bunny is abrasive and too honest whereas Richard will lie about tiny disprovable facts to make himself look more impressive, as well as being too ashamed of showing weakness to bother anyone with his problems even in life or death situations, Bunny would make his problem everyone elses’. Richard is very hesitant to let anyone spend money on/for him and Bunny demands money from Henry. Richard is quite private about his financial matters whereas everyone knows about Bunny’s financial situation. It’s becomes quite apparent when you start looking that the characters naturally fall into pairs. Charles and Camilla. Francis and Richard. Bunny and Henry. But Richard is obsessed with Henry more so than any of the others and tips the balance, throwing the group off. Bunny is thrown by Richard’s appearance, apparently making nasty remarks about him out of jealousy when he isn’t present but when Richard finds out about this he’s very surprised so Bunny is at least somewhat good at hiding things whereas Richard is quite terrible. Although Richard mentions that Bunny was already getting on the group’s nerves, Richard’s appearance and infatuation with Henry threw everyone from their neat little places within the Greek class. Although bunny may have escalated the situation as he did just as much as when Richard was there it would perhaps have not escalated quite as fast as if Richard wasn’t there.
I love being an outlet for creativity
I can compose, I can draw, I can write poems and stories and I can do anything I put my mind too
I'm way better than AI
I love being a creative. AI takes the creativity out of creativity
Suddenly Camilla stopped and put a finger to her lips. In a dead tree, split in two by lightning, were perched three huge, black birds, too big for crows. I had never seen anything them before.
'Ravens,' said Charles.
Charles laughed. 'Three of them for three of us. That's an augury, I bet.'
My favourite hc is that Richard is actually such an uncanny-valley person to everyone else around him because of his eyes. Like when someone meets him at first he’s fine: nice, a bit shy, maybe a bit quirky, but he’s like any other guy. And then when they start noticing him from a distance, he’s so uncanny. He has a slouch, how he answers to things, how he reacts, which are all fairly just weird. But it’s his eyes. He has this perpetual widened empty stare, with the dark pupils framed by the white of his eyes. And even when he smiles or does any other expression with the rest of his face, his eyes just stare. They don’t move, they don’t emote with the rest of him. It’s the reason why the Greek class was so drawn to him, yet there’s still that underlying unsettling feeling he gives off that makes them squirmish
Honestly what gets me about Bunny’s character is that so much of his character is completely ambiguous to us because he is ambiguous to Richard, Richard says himself that Bunny is not an easily described or pinned down person, he appears whole from afar (the perspective at which we see him), but up close he is a strange amalgamation that makes him impossible to ever understand.
We believe we understand Bunny because Richard is describing him to us and we’re viewing him through the perspective of another perspective, but the reality is that Richard didn’t even know Bunny that well and his perspective is, likewise, tainted by the perspective of the others. No matter how close he thinks he got to Bunny, no matter how much he learned, he never quite placed who Bunny was besides his most negative traits. Partly because it fit his narrative better and partly because it was impossible for him to ever see Bunny in his entirety.
and of course the only person who really KNEW bunny was henry and henry’s feelings towards him were likewise so complicated that it just further obscured who Bunny was because you couldn’t parse out how Henry himself felt about him.
camilla macaulay oouuhghghdhs
looking in the mirror and seeing her brother, trying to grow her hair out so she looks less like him but it looks so wrong she chops it off again in a fit of rage
dialing his number then hanging up again, staring at the scar of the cigarette burn and reminding herself that it is not worth it, he is not worth it
going into the church one day where he found comfort and sitting at the back, watching the ghost of him at ten racing between the pews with her, all bright smiles and shy laughter before anything had gone wrong for him, for them
hearing someone in town confusedly call her by his name and flinching, turning around in shock as if he might be standing up the road, only to find the person looking right at her instead
UGHSDNVLSHDL camilla macaulay you are so serious to me
thank you to books for existing
The thought of Francis being the only friend at Henry's funeral
(their friendship is actually one of my fave aspects of the novel)
Bunny’s parents at the funeral were fascinating; the way his father acted like everything was just the fine half the time while spontaneously breaking down at seemingly random intervals vs his mom busying herself with the aesthetics of the funeral (not for bunny’s benefit mind u, but to make thier family look trendy and put together) and showing almost no visible signs of grief at all.
+ The way Mr Corcoran was trying so hard to ingratiate himself with Henry and preform knowing him well, cus he knew enough to know that Henry was an integral part of bunny’s life, and yet he knew Jack shit about Henry because, by extension, he didn’t rlly know his son all that well either.
They’re the only instances of family of the Greek class that we rlly get to see featured in the novel and it would be a missed opportunity not to consider bunny’s own behavior and traits in conjuncture with that of his family: a boisterous fake it till u make it attitude (at the expense of genuine expression/connection) from dad, emphasis on wealth and status over relationships from mom, and I’m sure there’s lots to be gleaned from his brothers and their children as well, though I can’t recollect well enough to point to anything specifically just now.
Re-reading Dracula with a mouth filled with blood really gives it a new flavour
You have got to be kidding me...
Wait so not the infamous "I am Nobody" that later leads to "i am Odysseus" but the crew just gets angry that he blinded Cyclops because that will anger Poseidon instead? Idk his logic
Making an Odyssey movie without the "Nobody" name trick is trying to bake without using eggs, possibly but it's just wrong as hell
I feel Nolan really truly 100000% didn't bother to understand Homer but use the Odyssey to get his Oscar
Another Greek myth bastardized by modern media just for greed and popularity.
Do we need the gods themselves to strike down this production or something so we can get this to stop??/j
Hollywood's language is money so their wake up call is to dont see money at the box office
people will treat someone having a different interpretation of the "i-require-multiple-interpretations-to-be-fully-understood" book as a death sentence
