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University Library, Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois, US. Walter Netsch.
Being in your 20s is weird because some of the people your age are marrying and having kids while others are trying to become a saint through asceticism, joining the communist party, attempting to achieve fame in Hollywood, or rejecting their upper class upbringing to be a sex worker in the red light district. Also half of them are roommates because the housing market is shit.
kaylee young-eun jeong just dropped two crazy family poems in the adroit journal đ just thought you would want to know after helplessness child
OUGHHHHHHH. yeah. I think sheâs one of the emerging voices in poetry Iâm most curious about I cannot wait to see what else she has to offer !
broadway cinematheque by eric yip // the poetry review
Kim Novak as Gillian Holroyd BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE 1958 â dir. Richard Quine
it's been 11 years since tlat was updated... and every year or so i go back and re-read this to break my heart all over again. i first read it in 2018, i think, so i'm in a very different stage of life than i was when i first read it. and i love it more every time.
crazy to find a poem of mine floating around on tumblr
"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps."
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Reading Tolkienâs annotated translation of Beowulf, and learning all kinds of things about LOTR and the Silm from it!
First:
Leave here your warlike shields [from Beowulf]
[Tolkienâs commentary; bold mine:] Note the prohibition of weapons or accoutrements of battle in the hall. To walk in with spear and shield was like walking in nowadays with your hat on. The basis of these rules was of course fear and prudence among the ever-present dangers of a heroic age, but they were made part of the ritual, of good manners. Compare the prohibition against drawing a sword in the officersâ mess. Swords of course also were dangerous; but they were evidently regarded as part of a knightâs attire, and he would not in any case be willing to lay aside his sword, a thing of great cost and often an heirloom.
This gives me some perspective around Tolkienâs probable intended tone for the moment in Meduseld in The Two Towers where Aragon strongly protests against being told to leave AndĂșril (a sword of very great value and ancientry, and very much an heirloom) with the door-warden. From a contemporary perspective itâs easy to read it as Aragorn being unnecessarily prideful and combative, but this passage strongly indicates that Tolkien intends it to be ThĂ©oden who is being unreasonable in that event, an indication - along with many others in the scene, prior to Gandalf dislodging Sarumanâs influence - that ThĂ©oden is being discourteous and behaving in a manner unworthy of a king who is recieving heroes offering aid. (The fact of Meduseld being a âgolden hallâ like famous Heorot in Beowulf may be deliberate to strengthen the parallel.)
Second (immediately following the above commentary):
But against this danger [from swords] very severe laws existed protecting the âpeaceâ of a kingâs hall. It was death in Scandanavia to cause a brawl in the kingâs hall. Among the laws of the West Saxon king Ine is found: âIf any man fight in the kingâs house, he shall forfeit all his estate, and it shall be for the king to judge whether he be put to death or not.â
This adds context to the incident in the story of TĂșrin in The Silmarillion where Saeros taunts TĂșrin in Menegroth and TĂșrin responds by throwing a heavy drinking-vessel at him and injuring him (itâs indicated the injury is serious, so Iâd take it along the lines of him giving him a broken nose and knocking out some teeth.) It is stated in at least some versions of the story that death is the punishment for drawing weapons in the kingâs hall, in line with the historical customs mentioned here. This gives a further emphasis that what actually happens - TĂșrin is not punished at all and Mablung strongly reprimands Saeros for provoking him - illustrates that TĂșrin is, Saerosâ behaviour notwithstanding, in very high favour in Menegroth. (Saeros as the kingâs counsellor is also in roughly the same position as Unferth in Beowulf, who taunts the titular character - Beowulf responds heatedly but without violence. Tolkien may be setting up a deliberate contrast here.)
Third:
The word hĂĄdor is an adjective meaning âclear, brightââŠit is almost always found in reference to the sky (or the sun or stars). But that association is in description of brightnessâŠ
This was one a lightbulb moment: oh, in the name of Hador Goldenhead (the ancestor of HĂșrin, TĂșrin, and Tuor in The Silmarillion), âGoldenheadâ isnât an additional name/epessĂ« so much as itâs a glossed translation of âHadorâ! The guy with bright, golden hair.
Fourth: Going back to the Rohirrim - Edoras, the name of their capital city/royal court, is basically just the Old English for âcourtsâ:
under was very frequently used in describing position within, or movement to within, a confined space, especially of enclosures or prisons, âwithin four wallsâ. Cf. in under eoderas (eoderas being the outer fences of the courts), âin amid the courtsââŠ.âeoderâ means both âfence (protection)â and âfenced enclosure, a courtâ.
Iâm also learning a lot about Beowulf - Tolkienâs notes are clarifying a lot of tone and nuances, not to mention the political/diplomatic relationships between the different kingdoms, which were confusing me - but itâs amazing how much it reveals about ways that Tolkienâs knowledge informed his legendarium!
The Green knight is like. Its about honour. Its about regret. Its about fear. Its about courage. Its about shame. Its about the cyclical nature of the world. Its about mirrors and parallels. Its about your mom and you. Its about death and decay. Its about choices. Its about magic. Its about trying to avoid the unavoidable. Its about aging. Its about changes you arenât ready for but have to go through anyways. Its about chances you wanted but were too scared to take. Its about gently kissing and caressing dev patels face. Its about expectations. Its about disappointing people. Its about how you look back at all the things you couldve done differently and forward to the things that may come. Its about the unyielding but loving power of nature and life. Its about being a person.
The Green Knight is a Christmas movie in the same way White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes is a Christmas song
endless gifs of movies that i love THE GREEN KNIGHT dir. David Lowery, 2021
Whilst weâre off looking for red, in comes green. Red is the color of lust, but green is what lust leaves behind, in heart, in womb. Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die, too. When you go, your footprints will fill with grass. Moss shall cover your tombstone, and as the sun rises, green shall spread over all, in all its shades and hues. This verdigris will overtake your swords and your coins and your battlements and, try as you might, all you hold dear will succumb to it. Your skin, your bones. Your virtue.
I'm still thinking about the reckless siblings today. about jacob always running away when things get ugly & will being forced to stay and deal with the aftermath, even though he would love to just leave, too. & whenever they resented their older brother for disappearing will felt guilty, because that's still their brother & they love him. but all that rage he used to bottle up is now out in the open, he can't hide it all anymore & he doesn't want to. in a way the roles have reversed even, because now jacob is the one who follows will, the one who finally stays, while will recklessly charges towards danger alone. I'm fine this is fine :)
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âYour worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.â
â Fyodor Dostoevsky, from âCrime and Punishmentâ, originally published c. 1866.
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