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"Catches a nurse in the orphanage getting down to it when he's 5. Is looked after by 'Alice' - a few years older than him then she disappears. Sets the stage for pathological fear/hatred of women? He's adopted but abused by religious nut - the wife enables it. He gets with a waitress but when he learns he's mixed race it all seems to go terribly wrong. I kind of feel bad for him ... but I can't figure out his psyche" — Apr 30, 2025 09:58AM
"Catches a nurse in the orphanage getting down to it when he's 5. Is looked after by 'Alice' - a few years older than him then she disappears. Sets the stage for pathological fear/hatred of women? He's adopted but abused by religious nut - the wife enables it. He gets with a waitress but when he learns he's mixed race it all seems to go terribly wrong. I kind of feel bad for him ... but I can't figure out his psyche" — Apr 30, 2025 09:58AM
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"The film had a profound effect on me, so I have to read this now. So far a delightful experience. As strange and emotionally charged as Lanthimos' adaptation. I enjoy Bella's curious stream-of-consciousness way of speaking. And any story with a convoluted love affair is bound to pique my interest." — Feb 13, 2024 08:24AM
"The film had a profound effect on me, so I have to read this now. So far a delightful experience. As strange and emotionally charged as Lanthimos' adaptation. I enjoy Bella's curious stream-of-consciousness way of speaking. And any story with a convoluted love affair is bound to pique my interest." — Feb 13, 2024 08:24AM
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"Already strange. The poem is beautiful and sad. What's interesting is the rhyming scheme - it strikes me as somewhat childish - yet the imagery conjured up and the subject matter is equal parts heart-breaking and mind-bending. Note: I don't know how much our commentator can be trusted here; how much of the poem is Shade's?
"Outstare the stars. . . above your head they close like giant wings, and you are dead."" — Jul 20, 2023 09:15AM
"Already strange. The poem is beautiful and sad. What's interesting is the rhyming scheme - it strikes me as somewhat childish - yet the imagery conjured up and the subject matter is equal parts heart-breaking and mind-bending. Note: I don't know how much our commentator can be trusted here; how much of the poem is Shade's?
"Outstare the stars. . . above your head they close like giant wings, and you are dead."" — Jul 20, 2023 09:15AM
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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