yours eternally

noelle // lesbian, 21. literature & theatre enthusiast.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You have the blood of a poet. You have that and always will. You show, in the middle of savage things (that I like), the gentleness of your heart, that is so full of pain and light.”

— Federico García Lorca, from a letter to Miguel Hernández wr. c. April 1933

[saoirseronandaily]

The director Ivo van Hove and a dazzling international cast — led by Ben Whishaw, Sophie Okonedo, Saoirse Ronan and Ciaran Hinds — have plumbed the raw terror in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” which opened on Thursday night at the Walter Kerr Theater. And an endlessly revived historical drama from 1953 suddenly feels like the freshest, scariest play in town.

[petaltexturedskies]

In March the earth remembers its own name. Everywhere the plates of snow are cracking. The rivers begin to sing. In the sky the winters stars are sliding away; new stars appear as, later, small blades of grain will shine in the dark fields. And the name of every place is joyful.

Mary Oliver, “Worm Moon” in Twelve Moons

[butterflypeaflowertea]

from ‘so we have been given time or (excerpt)’ by sawako nakayasu

[ablogwithaview]

“One speaks of the moods of spring, but the days that are her true children have only one mood: they are full of the rising and dropping of winds, and the whistling of birds. New flowers may come out, the green embroidery of the hedges increase, but the same heaven broods overhead, soft, thick and blue, the same figures, seen and unseen, are wandering by coppice and meadow.”

— E.M. Forster, Howards End. 

[angesirene]

Mêng Chu, Spring Song, tr, by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

[vansantfilm]

Sarah Lamb as Mary Vetsera in Kenneth Macmillan’s Mayerling, The Royal Ballet Season 2016/2017.

[petitjeanofficial]

“‘I found this environment unbearable. I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule.”

— Jung Chang (Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China)

[gnossienne]

Sophocles, Electra (trans. Anne Carson)

[nofinalgrlsjuststrongwomen]

“While occupying the islands, the American soldiers referred to the Filipinas as ‘little brown fucking machines powered by rice.’ A sex industry sprang up to cater the U.S. military men, offering ‘a girl for the price of a burger.’ It was the imperialistic conquest of the islands by the Americans that jump-started the sex entertainment industry in the Philippines. During the Vietnam War, five U.S. military bases stationed in Thailand sheltered 40,000 to 50,000 American GIs at any given time. Between 1966 and 1969, as many as 70,000 U.S. soldiers came to Thailand for ‘Rest and Recreation’ (R&R) and ignited a sex industry. R&R facilities have been, and continue to be, a vital component of the U.S. military policy. With pervasive disrgard for human rights, the military accepts access to indigenous women’s bodies as a ‘necessity’ for American GIs stationed overseas. After the Vietnam War ended, ‘there was a major campaign on tourism’ targeting White men to sustain Thailand’s sex industry. By the early 1990s, several million tourists from Europe and the United States visited Thailand annually, many of them specifically for its sex and entertainment industry. In 1995, for example, a study reported that sixty-five percent of tourists to Thailand ‘were reported single men on vacation.’ The White conquest of Asia is 'far from being a thing of the past but is a lived experience of many.’”

— “White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence,” by Sunny Woan, 2008. (via mashrou3-ummi)

[sivavakkiyar]

Amitava Kumar, Passport Photos, 2000

[matsui-sinclair]

angels in america (2017) dir. marianne elliott & bridget caldwell

[phylogeny]

"But this is my own maze, she told herself, this is the maze I grew up in; I could not be a prisoner here; I know the way so perfectly, and she turned and was further lost."

— Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

[cor-ardens-archive]

— Paolo Valesio, The Fierce Dove, from “Lectura Dantis: Inferno”, commentary on Canto V

[soracities]

Coral, spread fingers, birch twigs, a loosely knotted fishing net, crystals, river deltas, ivy, mackerel clouds, women’s hair…diverse as these phenomena are and formed from opposing elements, nevertheless they all revolve around the invisible joints, their opposite forms touch even though they are far apart…and if I imitate their form, reaching my arms to the sky—moving them together and apart in turn, waving them to and fro—then [I am] no longer alone…I am the brother of all that divides, all that curls, all that intertwines, all that waves…

Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale (trans. Victoria Cribb)

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, “Dogfish.” Dream Work

[sharontates]

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in their theatre production of Romeo and Juliet (1940)