The Major Key

I actually love the Louis and Regina subplot because it really is a continuation of the way Louis has always treated women, as a source of emotional labour that he can throw money at and have them make him feel better. It’s Miss Lily all over again, it’s “paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with him”. Making Claudia was always about Louis’ feelings under the pretence of saving her from the fire. He wants to save Regina from poverty but it’s all to make himself feel better. She sees through him but she’s so broke that she can’t afford to say no

kind of crazy that Cardinal Lawrence started the movie having a crisis of faith and depressed about not feeling God’s presence but the moment he decided to try to get over it and try to be Pope anyway God showed up and blasted the roof off the place directly over his head specifically to tell him to sit back down. Dad who hasn’t been home in months and then shows up at your little league game to boo

Two of my favorite movies, genuinely embarrassed I didn’t think of this parallel myself 😳

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

And how blessed are we that he should have left us such a wonderful image to imagine on. And imagine on we did, our minds and eyes cast toward the skies and deeper still within, toward further understanding our place between the cosmic and the atomic.

oh you like history? name everything that ever happened