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Regarding Susan Sontag (2014) dir. by Nancy D. Kates

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Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986)

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cats in bookshops

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Edward Hopper- Night Windows, 1928, oil/canvas

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Édouard Boubat, French, 1923-1999 Cats on a roof in Paris, 1947

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Henri Cartier Bresson

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Helena Bonham Carter at home circa 1980s

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Jane Birkin at the Château de Versailles on November 28, 1973

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From the introduction to The Complete Illuminated Books, William Blake

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"I know what I feel. I love you in my selfish way. And I think you love me in your fussy, pestering way. We love each other in an earthly and imperfect way."

Scenes from a Marriage (1974), Ingmar Bergman

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Saitou Kazu.

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Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar Wai

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Fellini Satyricon (1969)

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idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

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this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. i’m already terrified for what’s going to happen in there

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k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someone’s bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and that’s true regardless of whether it’s a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:

1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize they’re saying?

because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.