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Brooch
c. 1900
Plique-à-jour enamel, conch pearl, diamond, platinum and eighteen karat gold
by Marcus and Co., American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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look, i understand that in the books maurice had black hair and it was symbolic of his sexuality and that a lot of people dont like the merchant and ivory film because they make him blond and remove quite a lot of his agency, however have they all considered.. that im blond rn and therefore its fine
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Thinking about how out of Maurice and Clive, Clive is the one who mythologizes and clings to the Platonic ideal for how to express his romantic/sexual attraction to Maurice and what their relationship should manifest as. A philosophical, transcendent, intangible ideal that he imagines as a meeting of the minds beyond what feeling can put into words, much like how the idea of "romance" is mythologized today as some transcendental feeling "beyond" friendship that you can't describe, "you just know it when you know."
Meanwhile, Maurice is the one who describes what he is searching for as a friend, with all the earthiness of the word's Germanic roots, "someone you can share your whole life with." And sometimes---he acknowledges (unlike Clive)---he wants to have sex with that Friend. Maurice's conception of his own romantic and sexual attraction (a friend who you have sex with) is much more aligned with an asexual or aromantic's conception of romance or lifelong partnership that has deconstructed amatonormativity. Rather than pedestalizing romance as some intangible, supreme ideal that transcends the physical or mundane, Maurice is simply looking for a friend, in all the simplicity of the word, and given that he obviously has other friends that he is NOT romantically/sexually attracted to, it is clear that he implicitly (if not explicitly) recognizes that sex and romance are not inherently co-contingent upon each other and sex is separated from (though can be compatible with) both romance and friendship in his mind. This is not to say that Maurice is aromantic: he clearly feels romantic and sexual attraction to both Clive and Alec, but notably, he conceptualizes his attraction and desired relationship as platonic, not Platonic. His partner is his Friend first AND he is his Lover. On the other hand, Clive chases a romanticized Platonic ideal that allows him to sublimate/repress his romantic and sexual attraction into an ideal that is more tolerable to society AND slowly destroys his friendship with Maurice in the process.
All this is to say is that E. M. Forster's vision of love and romance as "a friend that you have sex with" manages to capture an understanding of love that breaks down amatonormativity, challenges the conflation of romantic and sexual attraction, and grounds the idea of partnership in something that is tangible and real. Its conceptual construction places friendship, genuine human connection, and affection at the heart of such a relationship without necessitating or denying physical or sexual expression of that attraction. In a heteronormative, amatonormative world where so many straight couples are together who consider romantic relationships more important than platonic ones, and often don't seem to have anything in common with their opposite sex partner or see them as a human being (see: jokes about how one partner "doesn't understand how men/women work" or "you can't tell what women are thinking", seeing their partner as part of an inscrutable class, not as an individual), Forster's conception of partnership through Maurice stumbles across a radical, queer vision of relationship that puts friendship first without denying the existence of romance or sex, whereas the idealized amatonormative vision of relationship expressed through Clive based on intangible, divine, mysterial connection ultimately fails because it is not based on anything real and represses everything that is real.
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Nifty little language game here.
I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty
at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words
at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context
1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible
Okay, so 1300 was where it took some real thinking. If I were trying to understand it spoken and not written I probably wouldn't do well at all. But there's enough Latin that I would adjust pretty quickly I think. I could achieve full fluency.
I can't do 1200 or anything past it. It is, as the author says, a wall. It feels like a closely related foreign language. I had Spanish lessons at a very early age so I actually do okay at romance languages and skated through 1300 on thstt, but am totally lost here because I know zero German, and as German roots become more prevalent I lose all footing.
Really cool stuff. I really want to know what we will sound like in 100 years and wonder if anyone has made an educated guess at that.
E. M. Forster: Maurice

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E. M. Forster: Maurice
Can u tell I’ve been obsessed with this book/movie since I was 15
James Wilby as Sir Peter Bailey in TV series The Marlow Murder Club season2, 2025.
James Wilby as Maurice Hall in film Maurice 1987.
James Wilby as Sir Peter Bailey in TV series The Marlow Murder Club season2, 2025.
James Wilby as Maurice Hall in film Maurice 1987.

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E. M. Forster began writing Maurice in 1913 after visiting gay socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter and his working class love George Merrill on their farm. They inspired the relationship between Maurice and Alec, and Forster’s own rough trade fantasies of being “loved and even hurt” by a “strong young man of the lower classes.”
Forster finally had sex for the first time in 1917 at the age of 37, and made up for lost time so hard that he never wrote any other books after that.
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i’ve spent 2025 thinking a lot about E.M. Forster’s “Maurice.” it was written in 1913, but wasn’t published until the 1970s because of its depiction of homosexuality, specifically its happy ending. despite its challenges in publication, and Forster’s own fears for his novel, Forster wrote the novel, saved it, and dedicated it “to a happier year.”
sometimes it takes a while for things to work out. but we can always have hope that, no matter how good or bad or strange this last year has been, we can look to the future with hope.
i don’t have much more to add, besides that i’m wishing myself a happier year, and if you’re reading this, i’m wishing one for you, too.
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i didn't just watch maurice i was just reminded of it. really good. i wish there were more gifsets that didn't have clive bc im somewhat morally opposed to reblogging them. maybe im too concerned what others think of me. i just can't have people thinking i find maurice's relationship with alec more compelling than his with clive. there's a reason clive isn't the main character. he's boring. maurice is interesting bc he realizes he is unhappy and chooses to become happy