I need you as the one luminous point in my madness
"If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?"
I loved you with the most violent passion;
I hated you with the most bitter animosity;
I longed for your death,
and yet I sought your presence.
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us anymore.
"If I let him do this to me, what else will I allow?
Anything, anything, anything."
You said I killed you— haunt me, then! Be with me always — take any form— drive me mad!
she loved him alive,
she loved him dead,
she loved him resurrected.
you'll never recover from that kind of devotion.
In the dream I don't tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.
"Do you realise how devoted I am to you, all the same? There's nothing I wouldn't do for you, dearest Honey."
The pain will remind us of each other. When we meet later, if there is a later, we will recognize each other by it.
Across centuries and the void of a world, sleepless, I seek you.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there"
LESTAT DE LIONCOURT AND LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022)
// Fyodor Dostoevsky , Notes from Underground // Henry Miller to Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953). // Margaret Atwood, We are hard // Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk // Franz Kafka, The Castle // Raleigh Ritchie, Bloodsport // Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless // Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights," // Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Liebe der Magdalena // Leah Horlick, For Your Own Good // Richard Siken, I had a dream about you // Virginia Woolf, "Letter to Vita Sackville-West," 16 February 1927 // Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays // Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day // Rumi //
i dog and i dog on grrm but every time i go on that damn subreddit i get so defensive of that old man. oh you think it's so easy? you think it's all fun and games to write a thousand page book in a multipov multicontinental densely structured narrative setting with all the world's eyes on you? go ahead u/chudmeister0621 pick the pen we're all waiting
how many people ranting about "inaccuracies" in the odyssey realize they're exactly the type of person that AI art is made to cater. people dont want movies. they want content based on prompts they give. just rigidly and desperately replicating the art already made, without any room for interpretation or deviation. removing the subjectivity of a viewpoint. no retelling to be a commentary on current times. just a complete denial of validity of a piece of art unless it evokes the emotions you had already decided to feel, unless it fits the image you had already imagined. just no room for any wonder or possibility of being moved by art at all. it must adhere to all that it ever was or all that the consumer decided it could be. well i hope the elon musk ai movie recites the poem in original greek word to word and renders gods and goddesses and monsters as unnaturally beautiful and monstrous the text describes. nohing less, nothing more.
if nolan had made lion king, there'd be shakespearean scholars writing theses on how simba didnt recite the to be or not to be soliloquy. and giving interviews on how its just pixels.
the funniest thing about the odyssey discourse and general hatred is that if he had made the movie as a beat to beat adaptation from page to screen, the same people would've hated it for "well he had nothing to say. he added nothing that was his"
george believes exactly what i believe every single word that leaves his mouth affirms my exact interpretation of the series and all of my extrapolations r perfectly coherent and will be vindicated and everything that happens in any adaptation that i dislike is something that has no root in canon and was twisted by the devils that took his text and ruined it that the old man despises with the fury of a thousand suns and everything that i do like came directly from him
the best way to read george interviews is to take out and magnify the parts of it which can take a shape that supports my agenda entirely in the great agenda wars and ignore the countless other things he had also very much said that do the complete opposite. this is also how u should read entire books as well
ok i know it is funny to take this as like “so true” and #real but i cant put into words how frustrated i am by the asoiaffies that r unironically and legitimately shamelessly operating like this
what if your mother is a PROPHETIC KNIGHT your father is a songwriter married to a lesbian and your uncle is currently with her lover and your paternal grandfather BURNS ALIVE your maternal grandfather and your paternal grandmother wants your (unborn) aunt to bring dragons back. and your name is jonathan. you were stabbed 15 times in the cold
