February 2012
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achievement in cinema 2011
Considering that the annual self-indulgent, self-congratulatory beauty pageants (a.k.a awards shows) almost never get it right, I don’t bother watching them, knowing they’ll just rile me up needlessly – another post for another time. That said, I tend to construct my own mental ‘awards’ anyway, and I am rather pleased that I didn’t have to struggle for choice.
follow the link.
awritersruminations asked: What is one book or film that you have deeply connected with?
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anonymous queries pt. ii
Anonymous asked you:
Are you male of female? Please, how old are you?
I see your persistence, Anon, and I raise you a further prevarication!
Anonymous asked you:
What is sexuality to you and how do you identify
In the former - irrelevant to my perception of myself; I was never particularly fond of defining myself through those things which I cannot control. In the latter - I’ll...
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anonymous queries
Anonymous asked you:
That stanza in Italian at the top of your tumblr—are they lyrics or did you write them? Do you speak Italian?
As much as I would delight in taking credit, alas no - they belong to Canto XXVII of Dante’s Inferno, and form the epigraph in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - two of the many formative literary influences in my...
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“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
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perusing the work of monika bielskyte has achingly inspired me. there is something coldly vulnerable and intimate to her work, all gossamer veins and desert stretches of pallid skin over broken bones. ribs laid naked and bare on a frigid slab, bruised by frankenstein fingertips {like a patient etherised upon a table}. the tangled sheets on the empty bed, suffused with the haemorrhagic remains of...
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