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Tonight’s earworm: Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion

“Someone who takes love away from us devastates the cultural structure we’ve worked on all our lives, deprives us of that sort of Eden that until that moment had made us appear innocent and lovable. Human beings give the worst of themselves when their cultural clothes are torn off, and they find themselves facing the nakedness of their bodies, they feel the shame of them. In a certain sense the loss of love is the common experience closest to the myth of the expulsion from the earthly paradise: it’s the violent end of the illusion of having a heavenly body, it’s the discovery of one’s own dispensability and perishability.”

from a trailer off NousTV St. Hyacinthe on Facebook, had to time the screenshot right for the face cards

No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.

not to mention, Miss Honey is an abuse survivor herself (and in the book, she’s only 23 years old)

“The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.”