tageslight

1. Christopher Nolan is really good at world-building.

2. Christopher Nolan recognizes skilled actors when he sees them.

3. Christopher Nolan recognizes hot people when he sees them.

4. Thinking conservationally is basically a form of fascism that will crush our dreamers and explorers. 

5. Men have ideas based on data; women have feelings based on...I don't know, some woo-woo bullshit.

For Friends Only

(for John and Teckla Clark)  Ours yet not ours, being set apart  As a shrine to friendship,  Empty and silent most of the year,  This room awaits from you  What you alone, as visitor, can bring,  A weekend of personal life.  In a house backed by orderly woods,  Facing a tractored sugar-beet country,  Your working hosts engaged to their stint,  You are unlike to encounter  Dragons or romance: were drama a craving,  You would not have come.  Books we do have for almost any  Literate mood, and notepaper, envelopes,  For a writing one (to "borrow" stamps  Is the mark of ill-breeding):  Between lunch and tea, perhaps a drive;  After dinner, music or gossip.  Should you have troubles (pets will die  Lovers are always behaving badly)  And confession helps, we will hear it,  Examine and give our counsel:  If to mention them hurts too much,  We shall not be nosey.  Easy at first, the language of friendship  Is, as we soon discover,  Very difficult to speak well, a tongue  With no cognates, no resemblance  To the galimatias of nursery and bedroom,  Court rhyme or shepherd's prose,  And, unless spoken often, soon goes rusty.  Distance and duties divide us,  But absence will not seem an evil  If it make our re-meeting  A real occasion. Come when you can:  Your room will be ready.  In Tum-Tum's reign a tin of biscuits  On the bedside table provided  For nocturnal munching. Now weapons have changed,  And the fashion of appetites:  There, for sunbathers who count their calories,  A bottle of mineral water.  Felicissima notte! May you fall at once  Into a cordial dream, assured  That whoever slept in this bed before  Was also someone we like,  That within the circle of our affection  Also you have no double.

It turns out, we may be more social than we were 30 years ago, at least in public spaces.

"Many critics have noted that the girls, all from seemingly financially secure families, are members of a privileged class. A slightly different aspect of their privilege is the relative confidence we feel that they can seek sexual experience without being in physical danger, that any revelations they receive will be useful and interesting rather than damaging or crushing, and that the people in their world will not punish them for their curiosity or high spirits. The girls feel confident of this too. They have an air of extended innocence, a girlish exuberance (behind a scrim of polished good behavior) that is the characteristic bearing of American upper-middle-class young women."

this is one sentence. that bolded word? it is the operative verb for the opening clauses of this beast.

“Zuerst ist auf das augenfälligste Merkmal hinzuweisen, daß das Bedürfnis der vom Tempo der Epoche mitgerissenen, von den allgemein Umständen des Daseins bedrängten, hastigen Menschen der neuesten Zeit jeder sozialen Rubrik nach Beruhigung, leicht zu beschaffender Ausspannung ihrer maltraitierten Sinne, vor allem nach der Lust des Schauens, vom Film oder dem Flimmerspiel, wie es neuerlichst zubenannt wurde, in einer Weise befriedigt wird, welche an Stärke des Endrucks von keiner anderen Darstellungsart, weder einer schriftlichen, bildlichen noch körperlichen, übertroffen zu werden scheint; denn das Gerede von einer absteigenden Frequenz in den Filmstätten ist eine lächerliche oder auch böswillige Erfindung."

me: speaking of square jawed manly men, have you been keeping up with mad men?

mom: no! I can't find it!

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