#lysis

[schumi-nadal]

Louis Hofmann & Oliver Masucci | Under The River/Lysis (2018)

Shelter & Hope.

Part 1 | Part 2

[eldhuug]

Epic last of the wine moment

[wanderingiphis]

My new favorite thing, quotes that are epic but epicness doesn't make sense without context:

"I offer no apology for saying things that contradict what I have said before to suit the moment."

- Clytemnestra, from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Translated by Oliver Taplin

"If only I could sing like Orpheus,"

- Iphigenia, from Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis, Translated by George Theodoridis

"Don't you understand? — I saw death reach out for you; and I had no philosophy."

- Lysis, from The Last Of The Wine by Mary Renault

[neonmetro]

i'm so late to post these.... but i started bweird's oc-tober as a challenge but stopped since i started getting burnt out lol... did manage to get to day 18 before stopping (i'll post them soon)

[aniitahhhah]

Thinking about how in The Last of the Wine. Alexias is courted by sexy ass Charmides but ends up with lame ass Lysis 😵‍💫

I gotta re read this book at some point, literally the only thing I remember was Alexias being obsessed with Sokrates and being like bestfriends with Xenophon lmaoo 😭🙏

[alatii]

“He was said too to have been among the notable beauties of his year, which one could still believe without trouble. I saw his name every day, since it was written on the base of the statue: Lysis, son of Demokrates of OExone.”

—The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault

[renaultphile]

Last of the Wine experts please help!

Can someone tell me what is going on here - it's the bit when Alexias cuts his foot while he is swimming with Lysis. I thought I was used to weird internal monologue after years of reading The Charioteer, but this has me stumped......

[stellarish]

Lizard hilarity aside, I really enjoy how this chapter of dracula explicitly points out the same coping mechanism that Jonathan has been using the whole time: the narrowing of his focus.

We've all been joking about how he's embodying the "this is fine" dog, but honestly, I think his denial and tunnel vision is the only reason he hasn't had a breakdown yet. He's known something is wrong for a while now, even since the carriage ride I'd say, but he hasn't let himself dwell on those thoughts. He doesn't think too much about his fear when avoidable, and he certainly doesn't write about it in his journal, because that would mean giving the fear more focus.

Jonathan writes long paragraphs about what Dracula tells him of his history, of their conversations on soliciting, because that's what's safe for him to think about. He focuses on the facts—on the things not tinged with too much dread or many hints of the supernatural, because doing otherwise would mean confronting the true horror of his situation. He won't think too hard about what it might mean that his driver had apparent control over the wolves, because that issue opens up a bottomless hole of questions, but he can think about the issue of how he's going to shave without his mirror. It's a nice, tangible problem in a sea of things he cannot bear to dwell on.

Jonathan is a simple, business-minded man. He's built for dealing with train schedules and real estate law, not the supernatural, so these are the sort of things he focuses on. Anything else is a bit too much to bear. Even the blatantly supernatural stories must be recorded as though they are not so.

But now he's running out of normalcy to focus on, and I suspect that someday soon, Jonathan will be forced to confront the truth he's been avoiding. He's not just trapped; he's trapped with a monster, and when he's finally forced to face that truth head on, he is not going to take it well