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a brother to the insensible rock and to the sluggish clod

[sockerfri]

announcement: i am trying to grow my collection of shitty charts and diagrams, so please @ me if you come across any! all genres/disciplines and eras are welcome, fiction or nonfiction.

[sockerfri]

hi i’m starting a new life elsewhere, it’s too cluttered here. if you want the new link like the post - i’m trying to refollow mutuals, but if i missed you in the first go-round it was def an oversight

[sockerfri]

this blog is a dead husk, so this is goodbye

[weirdlandtv]

Interiors from SOLARIS (1972).

[sockerfri]

hi i’m starting a new life elsewhere, it’s too cluttered here. if you want the new link like the post - i’m trying to refollow mutuals, but if i missed you in the first go-round it was def an oversight

[danismm]

Curved lines - 1974 interior.

[sockerfri]

tenet is the worst movie i've seen in a long time, maybe since the oscar-winning fish sex film. too long, too edgelord-y, too much kenneth br*n*gh as the stereotypical wife-abuser faux-russian, too many macguffin timecubes, too much deliberate withholding of information to seem deep and cover all the holes in the nonsense time travel plot...and zero reason for me to care about anything that happened

john david washington is great, i even kind of enjoyed dirtbag-ex-teen-vamp guy, but i couldn't hear anything anyone was saying over the loud ketamine club soundtrack

1/5 stars for it probably being really hard to make things go backwards and forwards at the same time

[sockerfri]

can we please bring back the 87 minute movie

[karmologyclinic]

Miracle Mile (1988),  Thomas Pynchon sequence:

So, there’s this woman, early morning coming into the dinner, opens a suitcase, get’s Cliff Notes in Gravity’s Rainbow out, places the book on top of The Wall Street Journal, scans some lines from the book, checks the stock market on tv. Then all hell breaks loose —- but I’m not gonna tell you what happens in the movie, go see it.

[scavengedluxury]

Hala Arena, Poznan. April 2016.

[menelaiad]

Menelaus vs. Paris illustrated by Alice Rose Provensen & Martin Provensen (1956) 

[chailame]

MARISA TOMEI as Mona Lisa Vito

MY COUSIN VINNY (1992) dir. Jonathan Lynn

[sockerfri]

tranxio replied to your post “One of Nabokov’s most distinctive attributes as a...”

yucking on chairlovers’ yum. hmm, problematic

you've written an amazing sentence here. and for all his erudition, did the principle of "you do you" really go over nabokov’s head?

[sockerfri]

One of Nabokov’s most distinctive attributes as a literary critic was his penchant for rendering “strong opinions” on writers and their art. For example, he told Robert Hughes in 1965: “I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called ‘great books.’ That, for instance, Mann’s asinine Death in Venice or Faulkner’s corncobby chronicles can be considered ‘masterpieces,’ or at least what journalists call ‘great books,’ is to me an absurd delusion, as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair.”

Connolly J. (2016) Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good Writer, Bad Reader?. In: Rodgers M., Sweeney S. (eds) Nabokov and the Question of Morality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

[sockerfri]

my fav thing is slavicists who pretend (or believe!) that they are too cool for dostoevsky:

It was only when I finally gave in and taught a course on “Dostoevsky and the 1860s” that I realized that Dostoevsky was not just a writer of astonishing formal inventiveness, but also often wildly funny.

i haven’t done a formal study, but i suspect this group overlaps significantly with “people who pay too much attention to nabokov”

[luzfosca]

Wojciech Plewiński. From the series “Carriages in Łańcut”, Łańcut, Poland. 1958

[sockerfri]

scanning electron microscope images of vinyl grooves ( x )

[garadinervi]

Angelo Cagnone, L'inclinazione dello sguardo, 2019 [Galleria d'Arte L'Incontro, Chiari (BS)]