#david thomson

[burtlancster]

see i don’t think buford actually does come to the conclusion he didn't lead an "active gay life". she never comes to a definitive conclusion about his sexuality in the book probably on purpose. however, in an interview after the book was released she said, "i think he was probably bisexual. what was interesting to me was i went into this book assuming those were all rumors and that to be straight was the best of all ways to be and came out of it with an entirely different view". she didn't shy away from details in the book (for the most part) and without much editorializing allows the reader to draw their own conclusions based on the facts she’s presented. hers was a pretty well-rounded, unbiased interpretation of the facts and george trescher's maybe peripheral understanding of burt's preferences and many of the stories that've been floating around for decades from other gay men aren't contradicted in her book.

[swartzmark]

[onihcinimkcin]

I have learned a great new word: epicene

[anolis3]

"The People of the Sea", by David Thomson.

"Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending,- I listened, motionless and still ; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.", from The Solitary Reaper, by William Wordsworth.

"They took them away with them, the dead bodies of the seals, and they hadn't gone out very far until all the seals, of which there was a terrible number, started roaring and bawling, and they set up a terrible hullabaloo about the dead seals. And amidst all the excitement and turmoil one seal was heard to exclaim : 'Who killed Anna? Who killed Anna? Who killed Anna?' And this was answered by another seal : 'Oh, the same man, the man always, the man always.'", from The People of the Sea.

[manchestergalore]

Aytoun Street, Manchester 

1963

First building on the right: former employment exchange [source]

Designed by David Thomson in 1936 but when the war broke out the building work was suspended again until 1948 to finally open in 1951

Closed in1993

Now site of the hotel Holiday Inn Manchester - City Centre

Photo : Manchester Libaries.

[elizabethanism]

Roberto Rossellini

📷 Bert Hardy, 1953

“Rossellini was less a filmmaker than someone who observed the world through film”

- David Thomson

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

'The super-rich and the rest of us': 2 richest Canadians have as much money as 11 million combined

The two richest Canadians have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 30 per cent of the country combined, according to a new report from a group of international aid organizations.