shegë

los and beholds

[chloeinletters]

The year I went to the movies

[sbahtiri]

no love, however brief, is wasted.

[oldpaintings]

from Arabian Nights, 1928 by Virginia Frances Sterrett (American, 1900–1931)

[soracities]

“When we say “Time” we mean ourselves. Most abstractions are simply our pseudonyms. It is superfluous to say, “Time is scytheless and toothless”. We know it. We are time.”

— C.P Cavafy, marginalia on John Ruskin in Cavafy: A Critical Biography by Robert Liddell

[kansassire]

Decision to leave, 2022, Park Chan-wook

[sbahtiri]

allah

[shesnake]

Decision to Leave (2022) dir. Park Chan-wook

[starswaterairdirt]

Dracula, 1931

[grey-wardens-archive-deactivate]

Central to the film is a reclamation of the Orpheus myth, a version of which the three young women read aloud together one night. Sophie registers distress at Orpheus’s fatal, selfish incompetence in looking back at Eurydice when he was told not to, and Marianne suggests he may have done it on purpose, preferring to lose the woman and savor, instead, the romance of his grief, making not “the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.” But it’s Héloïse who removes, for once, the fixation on Orpheus, his failings, and his loss. What if, she says to Marianne with an edge of defiance, it was Eurydice herself who chose art over staying together, who rather than leave the underworld with Orpheus, stopped and called out “Turn around,” preferring to remain down there and be preserved in poetry. A kind of freedom and a kind of permanence, rather than, as eighteenth-century marriage looks to be, an unwilling exchange of one for the other. —  In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Love is a Work of Art

[philosophybits]

“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.”

— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

[sbahtiri]

adornology

[notmanthelessbutnaturemore]

“I had my existence. I was there. Me in place and the place in me.”

A Herbal, Seamus Heaney

[anneboleyns]

[soul-illness]

Русский Ковчег / Russian Ark (2002) dir. Aleksandr Sokurov

[7thartheaven]

Russian Ark (2002), Aleksandr Sokurov

[sbahtiri]

How to gaze at a moving crowd: a masterclass by sokurov

[antigonick]

“[Atlas], how do you do it? I said, and he said, Conscious abandonment of every part of the body in sequence, stomach, sole, palm, eyelid, scalp, tongue, rib, rib, rib, round and round all the ghastly day long, all the ghastly night.”

— Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

[elizabethanism]

P.S. Franz Wright  

I close my eyes and see

a seagull in the desert, high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I am writing to you all the time, I am writing

with both hands, day and night.

[maroussias1-deactivated20220606]

“Every kind of love adores repetitions because they defy time.”

— John Berger, from “From A to X A Story in Letters”, (Verso, 2008)

[shesnake]

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

[dark-romantics]

Write like the ghosts of all the women in history who weren’t allowed to write are standing right next to you wondering what a laptop is and why you’re still in your pyjamas.

via Lucie Britsch