#the idiot

[softersalt]

look. if i was at home i’d do a web weave. that’s what i do under these conditions. maybe i still will do one when i do get home. but that is over a week away. so instead, i am simply posting: ever since i read about ippolit and the wall outside his window, i have had in my head bartleby the scrivener. particularly “can you not see for yourself what the problem is” and “i know where i am”. do you understand. do you see it.

[katerobynmoments]

— Akira Kurosawa

“Dostoevsky wanted to portray a genuinely good man. Ironically he chose an idiot for his hero. But a truly good man may seem like an idiot to others. This is the tragic story of the ruin of a pure and simple man.”

[sneez]

also some silly ones. MYSHKIN is bouncing

[sneez]

i managed to get my paws on the script of subject to fits (thank you so much @last-of-the-independents for bringing it to my attention :D!!!) so here is a non-exhaustive compilation of parts which blew all my limbs clean off

[talbot-larry]

"What were you doing up at 3am last night"

"Making a sad boy edit of a Dostoevsky quote I can't get out of my head"

[holidays-begin-at-sundown]

if i knew ippolit i would make fun of him sooooo much. unfortunately that's exactly what all the other characters end up doing. fwiw my sister said he reminds her of me.

[katerobynmoments]

— Sylvia Plath

“I’ll never get over the experience of reading The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov and fear that I shall walk around carrying the much–underlined books in a small satchel and quoting voluminously from them at the slightest provocation.”